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Hillsboro (Virginia) Water Commissioner Claudia Forbes, Vice Mayor Amy Marasco, Mayor Roger Vance, Project Coordinator Alison Badger and Volkert Chief Inspector Jeffrey Shanks (from left) stand along the reconstructed Route 9 corridor in Hillsboro. (Photography by Noah Willman)
Established in 1752 in a gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Virginia, Hillsboro is a small and historic town known for its charming fieldstone buildings that tightly hug State Route 9.
But these days, the community — population approximately 120 and one of the state’s...