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History · Round Hill

Round Hill’s post office opened in 1858, and 30% of its homes were built before 1940

2 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 204 buildings. Below: 5 old photos and papers, maps from 1944 on, and the census since 1890.

1858first post office
2on the National Register
30%homes built before 1940
5old photos & papers
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From Round Hill’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Round Hill began

When was Round Hill founded?

1858

The Round Hill post office opened in 1858, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1900.

First census: 207 in 18902020 census: 693168 years
Founding year: the first Round Hill post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1900.The full story ↓

What stands out about Round Hill’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A historic districtThe Round Hill Historic District takes in 204 historic buildings.
★ What stands out · On the National Register

2 listings protect 206 historic buildings

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
206
each building in a district counts
first listed
2002
Woodgrove
Round Hill Historic District
BuildingsDistricts

Architectural styles listings

Federal1
Neo-Classical Revival1
Queen Anne1
Italianate1
Colonial Revival1
Late Gothic Revival1
WoodgroveFederal
Round Hill Historic DistrictQueen Anne

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

The story

How Round Hill came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Round Hill.

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Round Hill was incorporated on February 5, 1900. From 1874 to 1900, the settlement had been the terminus of a Washington and Ohio rail line that ultimately became the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad. The railway allowed agricultural products to be brought into Washington, D.C., and allowed the residents of the District to escape to the surrounding countryside for holidays. Many of the town's older residences were originally boarding houses, inns, and taverns where people would go upon arrival. The town was considered a convenient destination as it lies close to the Shenandoah River (7 miles/11.3 km distant), the Shenandoah National Park (30 miles/48 km), the Appalachian Trail (4 miles/6.4 km), Harpers Ferry (15 miles/24 km), the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park (12 miles/19 km), and the paved Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail (3 miles/4.8 km).

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Round Hill, 1858 to 1944

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1858Post officeThe Round Hill post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1920In the archiveKitchen Equipment Co. Fox home
  5. 1944On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Round Hill, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1920s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1920s5 items
Kitchen Equipment Co. Fox home1920Kitchen Equipment Co. Fox homeKitchen Equipment Co. Kitchen in Fox home1920Kitchen Equipment Co. Kitchen in Fox homeKitchen Equipment Co. Kitchen in Fox home1920Kitchen Equipment Co. Kitchen in Fox homeKitchen Equipment Co. Kitchen in Fox home1920Kitchen Equipment Co. Kitchen in Fox homeKitchen Equipment Co. Kitchen in Fox home1920Kitchen Equipment Co. Kitchen in Fox home
1930s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Today6 recent
Sagamore Hall - 09-10-18082022Sagamore Hall - 09-10-1808KetoctinBaptistChurch 08232013KetoctinBaptistChurch 0823Tim O'Brien at Knicely's Big Winter Concert Franklin Park Round Hill, Loudoun County VA February 20122012Tim O'Brien at Knicely's Big Winter Concert Franklin …Surveying fallen trees and power lines2008Surveying fallen trees and power linesRound-Hill-United-Methodist-Church2008Round-Hill-United-Methodist-ChurchWOODGROVE2007WOODGROVE
On the map

Round Hill on the map, 1944 to 1997

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Round Hill. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Round Hill on the 1944 USGS mapRound Hill on the 1953 USGS mapRound Hill on the 1997 USGS map1944Berryville sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Round Hill.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Kitchen Equipment Co. Fox home
Retake this viewKitchen Equipment Co. Fox home, 1920

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Round Hill’s page.

Retake this view · +15
People over time

Round Hill, census by census

01002003004005006007001900192019401960198020002020693

Grew from 207 people in 1890 to 693 in 2020, 3 times over.

14 censuses, 1890–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Round Hill’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Round Hill

Nobody well known was born in Round Hill itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Al GreyAmerican jazz musician · b. 1925
Martin R. DelanyUnited States Army officer and physician, aboli… · b. 1812
Thomas WorthingtonGovernor of Ohio · b. 1773
George William JohnsonAmerican politician · b. 1869
Hugh Henry BreckenridgeAmerican painter · b. 1870
J
James JettAmerican sprinter and American football wide re… · b. 1970
Help out

Finish Round Hill’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewKitchen Equipment Co. Fox home: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

Questions about Round Hill’s history

What year was Round Hill founded?

The Round Hill post office opened in 1858, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1900.

What is on the National Register in Round Hill?

Two places: the Woodgrove (listed 2002) and the Round Hill Historic District (2009).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6), the Library of Congress (5), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.