Willisville, Virginia

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.

This Loudoun County, Virginia state location article is a stub.

Map of Virginia highlighting Loudoun County