Just three days before the 2016 Bluemont Fair (the third weekend in September), Epling Landscaping generously and professionally installed a handsome, new, permanent interpretive sign on the front lawn of the newly restored Snickersville Academy. The illustrated DuraReader sign, purchased…
By Susan Freis Falknor The newly restored Snickersville Academy, built in 1825 as Bluemont’s first school and church, will be open to visitors Saturday and Sunday from 10-4 during the 2016 Bluemont Fair, September 17-18. Come and see our restoration!…
Among the many engineers who drove the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad was Ryland “Bert” Ruble By Susan Freis Falknor According to his granddaughter, Mary Timpano, Ryland Ruble worked on the W&OD from the mid-1930s until the mid-1950s. He was born…
By Susan Freis Falknor Bluemont’s Jerome Fanciulli is an example of how local history sometimes intertwines with the history of the country and the story of technology. Known to his Bluemont neighbors as a Ford truck dealer, Jerome Fanciulli was…
Back Row from Left: “Adelaide Weadon” is actually Adeline H. “Addie” Weadon (1857-1929). She is the daughter of Ashford and Laurinda and is the “Addie H” Weadon buried in the Ebenezer Baptist Church Cemetery. As far as is known she…
Donald S. Coram is a descendant of William Clayton. He visited Bluemont in May 2015, to attend the 190th Anniversary celebration of the Snickesville Academy, Bluemont’s first school and church. This informative article demonstrates how the spark of interest kept…
Bluemont’s Henry Plaster, whose family goes back to the early 1800s, gave a talk on the importance of local history (above). By Susan Freis Falknor Photos by Cynthia Morris On May 16, Bluemonters celebrated the 190th anniversary of the village’s…
By Susan Freis Falknor Thanks to Joe George, a descendent of Bluemont village’s founding father, William Clayton, we have received a reproduction of a historic meeting notice. The notice in the Genius of Liberty newspaper announces an 1817 meeting of…
By Susan Freis Falknor This candid photo captures a teenage Gladys Ashby, one morning in Bluemont, around 1943 or 1944. She sits in front of Bluemont’s historic E.E. Lake Store, where the U.S. Post Office was located at that time.…
By Susan Freis Falknor Two families made their home in the Snickersville Academy in the 1930s and early 1940s before Susie Neal came in the mid-1940s: the Costellos’ and Mrs. Bessie Carter. Long-time Bluemonter Martin Mitchell remembers these families from…
