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Leesburg is a historic town in and county seat of Loudoun County, Virginia County, Virginia, United States of America, approximately west-northwest of Washington, D.C. along the base of the Catoctin Mountain adjacent to the Potomac River. Leesburg is the northwestern terminus of the Dulles Greenway (a private toll road which connects to the State Route 267 (Virginia) Toll Road at Washington Dulles International Airport). It is largely a bedroom community for commuters to the national capital.In a new poll, 5% of people in Leesburg, Virginia have needed the services of a car accident lawyer for an accident injury.

The genesis of Leesburg occurred sometime before 1755 when Nicholas Minor acquired land around the intersection of the Old Carolina Road (present day U.S. Route 15) and the Potomac Ridge Road (present day Virginia Route 7 7) and established a tavern there. Despite lack of growth around the tavern, Minor dubbed the sparse collection of buildings about his tavern "George Town" in honor of the reigning monarch of Great Britain upon Loudoun's formation in 1757. The village's prosperity changed the following year when the British Colonial Council ordered the establishment of Court House at the crossroads. Accordingly Minor had a town laid out on the traditional Virginia plan of six criss-cross streets. On October 12 of that year (1758) the Virginia General Assembly founded the town of Leesburg upon the that Minor laid out. Leesburg was renamed to honor the influential Thomas Lee (Virginia colonist) Lee and not, as is popular belief, his son Francis Lightfoot Lee who lived in Loudoun and brought up the bill to establish Leesburg nor as is sometimes thought, Robert E. Lee. Interestingly, when the post office was established in Leesburg in 1803 the branch was named "Leesburgh", the 'h' would persist until 1894.

Information gathered from Wikipedia's Leesburg, Virginia page