Bluemont, formerly known as _Snickersville_, is an attractive village, snugly and advantageously situated at the southeastern base of the Blue Ridge Mountains, about 3 miles from Round Hill, 54 miles by rail from Washington, and 165 miles from Richmond. It is on the western edge of the most densely populated section of Loudoun, and boasts modern hotels and boarding houses, two liveries, a grain elevator, and many handsome dwellings. Two turnpikes, leading from Washington and Alexandria to Winchester, intersect at this point. Bluemont is a popular summer resort, and lies within a very short distance of both the "Bears' Den" and "Raven Rocks," jutting points on the western slope of the Blue Ridge, from which magnificent views may be had of the Shenandoah valley and river and the Alleghany and North mountains. The town has a population of 200, 14 of which number are merchants and mechanics. _Smaller Towns._ Other towns, post villages and settlements in the County are: _Airmont_, 2-1/2 miles from Bluemont, population 25; _Aldie_, on Little River, 5 miles from both Middleburg and Oatlands and 12 miles from Leesburg, the County seat, population 155, 7 merchants and mechanics; _Arcola_, 6 miles from Sterling and 12 miles from Leesburg, population 100, 4 merchants and mechanics; _Belmont Park_, a small railway station on the east bank of Goose Creek about 4 miles east of Leesburg, formerly a picturesque resort and popular excursion point managed by the old Richmond and Danville Railroad Company, attracting, during the few years of its operation, many thousands of visitors; _Bloomfield_, 7 miles from Round Hill, population 50; _Britain_, 8 miles from Purcellville, population 15; _Clarkes Gap_, one of the highest and healthiest points in the County and an important shipping point, draining a large extent of fertile country, 4 miles west of Leesburg, population 25; _Conklin_, 10 miles from Sterling, population 10; _Daysville_, 2 miles from Sterling, population 20; _Elvan_, 1 mile from Lovettsville, population 18; _Evergreen Mills_, 7 miles from Leesburg, population 10; _Georges Mill_, in the extreme northwestern part of the County; _Hillsboro_, 5 miles by stage from Purcellville, population 131, 9 merchants and mechanics; _Hughesville_, 7 miles from Leesburg, population 12; _Irene_, on the Southern Railway one mile from Hamilton and the railroad station for that town, population 20; _Leithton_, 8 miles from Purcellville and Round Hill, population 25; _Lenah_, 3 miles west of Arcola, population 25; _Levy_, on Bull Run, 3 miles south of Aldie; _Lincoln_, 2-1/2 miles southeast of Purcellville, in the heart of the "Quaker Settlement," population 200, 3 merchants and mechanics; _Lovettsville_, 2-1/2 or 3 miles south of Brunswick, Md., and 7 miles from both Waterford and Harpers Ferry, W. Va., in an industrious and progressive German neighborhood, population 97, 16 merchants and mechanics; _Luckets_, 5 miles from Point of