The exceptionally healthy climate, the rich and well watered lands of Loudoun, together with the fine sport for horse lovers carried on through its long hunting season, have proved a potent magnet to draw new residents to the county. Country homes are constantly being created or restored and surrounding farms are, for the most part, self-sustaining and well handled. With Virginia's assumption of the rôle of a leader in good roads, the old reproach of impassable highways has vanished. And Loudoun is proud of her people. It is an American community, its roots very deep in soil and tradition. It believes that it occupies that part of the Commonwealth and Nation most conducive to a sane and healthy life. Its sons and daughters sometimes, in following the beckoning finger of fortune, wander far afield; but are prone to return equally convinced with those who seldom leave the county that all in all no better homeland anywhere can be found--devoutly believing that though God might have made a fairer land, yet remaining strong in their reasonable conviction that God never did. INDEX Abel, George, 223 Acquia Creek, 20 Adams, Francis, 127 Adams, George, 70 Adams, John, Pres't, 157 Adams, John Q., Pres't, 191, 193 Adams, Matthew, 167 Adams, Nathaniel, 126 Akernatatzy, 9 Alden, John, 42 Anderson, John, 79 Aldie, Battle of, 216 Aldie Castle, 167, 177 Aldie Manor, 177 Aldie Town, 62, 105, 167, 193, 214, 216, 217, 220 Aldridge, J. West, 216 Alexander, Ann, 160 Alexander, John, 127, 160 Alexander, John H., 203, 215 Alexander, John R. H., Judge and Mrs., x, 170, 216, 228 Alexandria, Christ Church, 119 Alexandria City, 86, 106, 119, 133, 166, 194 Alexandria, Loudoun and Hamp. R. R., 195, 229 Alexandria Pike, 21, 64, 66, 68, 74, 88, 90, 205 Alleghany River, 83 Algonquins, 2, 4, 16, 18, 20 Allen, Rev., 164 Alsop (Quoted), 15 Amidas, Philip, 10 Ameroleck, 7, 8 Anacostans, 20 Ancram, George, 131 Andrè, Major, 143 et seq. Andrews, John, Rev., 72, 91 Anne, Queen, 45 Antietam Battle, 211 Appomattox, 221 Apprentices, 185, 186, 187 Arlington, Earl of, 14 Armand, Charles, 136 Armand's Legion, 136 Arnold, Benedict, 142 et seq. Asbury, George, 127 Ashby's Gap, 39, 70, 99, 168, 218 Aubrey, Elizabeth, 42 Aubrey, Francis, 38, 39, 40, 42, 62, 72, 74, 120, 169, 173 Aubrey, Thomas, 120 Aubrey's Ferry, 120, 121 Austen, W., 186 Awsley, Henry, 125 Awsley, Poins, 125 Awsley, Thomas, 125 Bacon, Nathaniel, 16, 18 Bacon's Rebellion, 9, 15, 18 Bagley, John, 128 Bagnall, Anthony, 5 Baker, Col., 206 Balch, Edwin S., 231 Balch, L. P. W., 186 Balch, Thomas, 231 Balch, Thomas, Library, vii, ix, 231 Balch, Thomas W., 231 Ball, Burgess, Col., 168, 176, 182 Ball, Charles A., 229 Ball, Esther, 80 Ball, Fayette, 191, 196 Ball, George W., Capt., 170 Ball, James, 169 Ball, Mary, 38, 80