Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Hamilton, VA

Hamilton is an incorporated town in Loudoun County, Virginia, six miles west of the county seat of Leesburg near the western base of Catoctin Mountain.

The 2020 census counted 619 people in Hamilton, which covers only about 0.2 square miles.

The community began as Harmony: George and Tabitha Roach Tavenner built the first house in the area in 1768, and their son Richard's estate was called Harmony.

The Leesburg and Snickers Gap Turnpike opened through the settlement in 1831, and Harmony Methodist Church was built in 1833.

The town also became known as Hamilton Store after Charles Bennett Hamilton's store, and when a post office was approved in 1835 the name was recorded as Hamilton.

Hamilton was incorporated as a town in 1875.

The Harmony Skirmish of March 21, 1865, in which Colonel John S. Mosby surprised troops under Colonel Marcus Reno, was the last important Civil War action in Loudoun County.

A steam railroad reached Hamilton by 1868 along the route that later became the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad, and by 1900 Hamilton was Loudoun County's second largest town.

A large fire in 1926 consumed much of Hamilton's commercial district.

Hamilton's National Register of Historic Places listings include the Hamilton Masonic Lodge, the Janney House, the William Smith House, Spring Hill Farm and Sunnyside Farm.