Hardy is an unincorporated community in Franklin,Bedford County,and Roanoke County Virginia, United States, and is about twenty miles southeast of Roanoke. It is also the home place of Confederate Gen. Jubal Anderson Early, who was born near the bottom of Windy Gap Mountain. It is the home place of NCAA baseball coach Charles Buddy Bolding as well. The Booth–Lovelace House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. The Booker T. Washington National Monument is also in Hardy.