Middleburg Mystique: A Peek Inside the Gates of Middleburg, Virginia

Middleburg Mystique reveals the charm of this village of 650 residents and the surrounding swath of horse farms just 50 miles west of Washington, D.C. Through the years, there have been scandalous stories of divorce – when actor Robert Duvall’s wife ran off with the poolman – and murders among the rich such as when arms heiress Susan Cummings shot her Argentinean polo-playing lover. It is a community that will gladly gossip about your misdeeds then turn around and protect you as if you were family. It is also a town that has captivated many well-known personalities from the Kennedys, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Wagner, and Oliver North – all of whom have called Middleburg home. A peek behind the grand stone entrances of massive estates with names such as “The Meadows” or “Heathfield” that belong to families such as the Firestones, Mellons, and Marriotts and along dirt roads named “Frogtown” and “Sally Mill”, where you will find that, yes, there must be something in that well water.