In The Middle Of It

Exploring the quaint, rich small town of Middleburg, Virginia

Middleburg, Virginia is in the middle of two things: “horse and hunt country,” which I can barely bring myself to say, and the middle point between Alexandria and Winchester, which is the origin of its name.

A fellow urbanist described Middleburg as weirdly and ostentatiously rich, different from the gaudy but kind of buttoned-up Northern Virginia new mo…