At Loudoun County crossroads, 98-year-old Gilberts Corner gas station torn down

If you’ve traveled in Loudoun County, Virginia, chances are you have driven past it, and maybe even wondered what it was. But now, a familiar landmark has been razed.

In 1927, William Gilbert built a gas station at the intersection of U.S. Route 50 and U.S. Route 15, east of Aldie. It’s stood at what’s known as Gilberts Corner since then.

While its current location is an unpaved lot near a large roundabout, when it was built, the location was literally a corner, since U.S. 15 hadn’t yet extended south of the intersection.

The Piedmont Environmental Council said after three years of evaluation and consultation with historic restoration and engineering firms, the building had to be taken down in the interes

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