West and north of the Washington, D.C. suburbs commonly termed "Northern Virginia," lies a quieter, gentler place: "The Other Northern Virginia." Today its slower pace might seem "quaint" to urban eyes, but nearly a hundred and fifty years earlier, during the Civil War, it played a far different role.

Today you can experience romantic stories of the daring local defenders that gave the Union a much different fight than those of the larger, bloody battlefields to the north, south and east. It is here one can trace the break-neck marches of General Stonewall Jackson, find the havens of master spy, Belle Boyd, or see where John S. Mosby successfully played "hide and seek" with the much larger Union army.