Aldie Mill and Hunt Country
p.1 #1Aldie Mill and Hunt Country
This is the Aldie Mill outside of Middleburg, Va. It was Fall a few years ago..in fact MANY years ago...It is a photographer's paradise in any photographic genre. We spent 5 days while only living 45 minutes away. I don't think there is NOT a "want" that cannot be filled in this area. I live in the Country and always have but this area is really wonderful!
But I believe there is a distinct "line" where progress and country is butting heads both in "the Country" and "the City"..
Dan
But I believe there is a distinct "line" where progress and country is butting heads both in "the Country" and "the City"..
Dan
Sep 02, 2026 at 01:40 PM
p.1 #2Aldie Mill and Hunt Country
Nice shots Dan, looks like a fun place to wander around with a camera - especially in the fall I'm sure!
Sep 02, 2026 at 09:41 PM
p.1 #3Aldie Mill and Hunt Country
Lovely looking place, I can see why you can spend much time there, Dan'l! That is one interesting fence design, stone and split rail!?!
Douglas
Douglas
Sep 03, 2026 at 06:04 AM
p.1 #4Aldie Mill and Hunt Country
adventure_photo wrote:
Nice shots Dan, looks like a fun place to wander around with a camera - especially in the fall I'm sure!
Thank you Scott!
IT is a beautiful area! It is the "hunt country" of Northern Virginia. Remnants of Civil War battlements, fieldstone "fences", rolling hills, quaint pre-Revoluntionary War towns.
A photographer's paradise for any and every genre of photography!
Thanks!
Dan
Nice shots Dan, looks like a fun place to wander around with a camera - especially in the fall I'm sure!
Thank you Scott!
IT is a beautiful area! It is the "hunt country" of Northern Virginia. Remnants of Civil War battlements, fieldstone "fences", rolling hills, quaint pre-Revoluntionary War towns.
A photographer's paradise for any and every genre of photography!
Thanks!
Dan
Sep 03, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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p.1 #5Aldie Mill and Hunt Country
douter wrote:
Lovely looking place, I can see why you can spend much time there, Dan'l! That is one interesting fence design, stone and split rail!?!
Douglas
It IS a lovely place Douglas.
The fence "design" goes back 250+ years. Farmers cleared their fields of the flagstones and made "fences". The split rails came along more of a stabilization of the rock walls than a deterrent to wildlife.
White's Ferry connected Maryland to Virginia over the Potomac River and the "Jubal Early" rope ferry was used to ferry the armies/ cavalries of both the North and the South to and from engagements to Gettysburg or the Southern battlefields.
Foxes abound, turkeys, the animal variety
, horse country.....Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Lee, Washington, Mary Lee Custis
all had properties in the area.
Thanks!
Dan'l
I have a wonderful image of a "4 legged" guide who directed me to the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers hidden in the woods....he would wait for me to take a photo then lead me to the next location to photograph. I nicknamed the pup "Mosby" after the famous Confederate General John Singleton Mosby … who was an American military officer and was a Confederate cavalry commander in the American Civil War...
The Aldie Mill is loaded with history.
Aldie is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located between Chantilly and Middleburg in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. The historic village of Aldie is located on the John Mosby Highway (U.S. Route 50) in a gap between the Catoctin Mountains, where I live, and Bull Run Mountains, through which the Little River flows. Aldie traditionally serves as the gateway to the Loudoun Valley and beyond.
This was the main military route to the North and South.
Lovely looking place, I can see why you can spend much time there, Dan'l! That is one interesting fence design, stone and split rail!?!
Douglas
It IS a lovely place Douglas.
The fence "design" goes back 250+ years. Farmers cleared their fields of the flagstones and made "fences". The split rails came along more of a stabilization of the rock walls than a deterrent to wildlife.
White's Ferry connected Maryland to Virginia over the Potomac River and the "Jubal Early" rope ferry was used to ferry the armies/ cavalries of both the North and the South to and from engagements to Gettysburg or the Southern battlefields.
Foxes abound, turkeys, the animal variety
, horse country.....Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Lee, Washington, Mary Lee Custisall had properties in the area.
Thanks!
Dan'l
I have a wonderful image of a "4 legged" guide who directed me to the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers hidden in the woods....he would wait for me to take a photo then lead me to the next location to photograph. I nicknamed the pup "Mosby" after the famous Confederate General John Singleton Mosby … who was an American military officer and was a Confederate cavalry commander in the American Civil War...
The Aldie Mill is loaded with history.
Aldie is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located between Chantilly and Middleburg in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. The historic village of Aldie is located on the John Mosby Highway (U.S. Route 50) in a gap between the Catoctin Mountains, where I live, and Bull Run Mountains, through which the Little River flows. Aldie traditionally serves as the gateway to the Loudoun Valley and beyond.
This was the main military route to the North and South.
Sep 03, 2026 at 10:40 AM
p.1 #6Aldie Mill and Hunt Country
douter wrote:
Lovely looking place, I can see why you can spend much time there, Dan'l! That is one interesting fence design, stone and split rail!?!
Douglas
Here is "Mosby"...
Dan
Lovely looking place, I can see why you can spend much time there, Dan'l! That is one interesting fence design, stone and split rail!?!
Douglas
Here is "Mosby"...
Dan
Sep 03, 2026 at 12:51 PM
p.1 #7Aldie Mill and Hunt Country
Mills are fascinating structures to wander and photograph. Did the water wheels spin?
Sep 03, 2026 at 04:16 PM
p.1 #8Aldie Mill and Hunt Country
jgurbisz wrote:
Mills are fascinating structures to wander and photograph. Did the water wheels spin?
It does spin "master J", but not the day I was there....the mill does stone grind corn but not that day.
I love mills..I have a few near me!!!
Dan..Thanks!
Mills are fascinating structures to wander and photograph. Did the water wheels spin?
It does spin "master J", but not the day I was there....the mill does stone grind corn but not that day.
I love mills..I have a few near me!!!
Dan..Thanks!
Sep 04, 2026 at 08:30 AM