Willisville is an unincorporated community in southwestern Loudoun County, Virginia, about sixteen miles from the county seat, Leesburg.
It is named after freed slave Heuson Willis, who bought a cabin and three acres of land shortly after the American Civil War.
[1] The tight-knit predominantly African American community of about a dozen houses and church became one of the last communities in wealthy Loudoun County without running water.
[2] The Virginia Piedmont Heritage Area Association campaigned to have Willisville designated an historic site.
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