Purcellville is a town in Loudoun County, Virginia. The population was 8,929 according to the 2020 Census. Purcellville is the major population center for Western Loudoun and the Loudoun Valley. Many of the older structures remaining in Purcellville reflect the Victorian architecture popular during the in advance twentieth century.

Although the first land attain in the Place was issued by Lord Fairfax of Cameron in 1740, it was not until 1764 that Purcellville’s first known settler, James Dillon from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, arrived. The to the fore ox cart track which wound westward from Leesburg towards the Blue Ridge, known future as the “Great Road,” served as the town’s nucleus, although farms existed in the area, and Ketoctin Baptist Church had been founded understandable by 1752. The first recorded business, an ordinary (a combined deposit and inn), was usual by Abraham Vickers in 1799. This was followed by a second ordinary, established by Stacey Taylor in 1804, and highly developed by “Purcel’s Store” and Post Office, established by Valentine Vernon Purcell (from whom the town’s pronounce is derived). A blacksmith’s shop, established more or less 1848, was also in the course of Purcellville’s prehistoric businesses. On July 9, 1853, the village officially adopted the herald Purcellville.

The Great Road became an authorized turnpike in 1785 and outstretched the turnpike system westward from Alexandria to Snickers Gap, and on culmination of to Berryville and Winchester. With the construction of this Turnpike in 1832, travel through Purcellville began to accrual and the first stagecoach arrived in 1841. A railroad link on the Alexandria, Loudoun, and Hampshire line (forerunner to the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad) connecting the town to Leesburg and points east was built prior to the Civil War, and travel to points other west were continued by stagecoach through Purcellville.

Although both Union and Confederate armies passed through Purcellville during the Civil War, the town witnessed limited raid with the most notable measure occurring at the exploit of Heaton’s Crossroads. The town and surrounding area were contained within the area known as Mosby’s Confederacy, the main Place of operations for Confederate partisan John S. Mosby, and the town was pillaged as share of The Burning Raid of 1864 in retribution for the area’s retain of Mosby’s command.