Hardy is an unincorporated community lying in Bedford County, Franklin County, and Roanoke County Virginia, United States, about twenty miles southeast of Roanoke. The community is near the Booker T. Washington National Monument, which commemorates where Booker T. Washington was born in 1856. It is also the home place of Jubal Anderson Early, who was born near the bottom of Windy Gap Mountain.The Booth-Lovelace House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.