By Susan Freis Falknor Years after the idea was first suggested, work to convert the old Bluemont grain elevator into a telephone tower seems to be approaching an end. Using an enormous crane, workers are moving the big boxes of…
The Snickersville Academy, Bluemont’s first school and church has stood for almost 190 years on Old Mountain Road running to the left (south) off Snickersville Turnpike just past Clayton Hall Road and behind Carrington House. It was used as a…
Summer 2012 Logbook Bluemont Newsletter
By Susan Freis Falknor Born in 1925, raised in Airmont, schooled in Bluemont, and now a resident of Berryville, Roberta Underwood has a gift for storytelling. In her December 1, 2011 interview, she talked about her early life on her…
By Susan Freis Falknor In Part 2 of her reminiscences of growing up in the Bluemont area, Roberta Underwood recalls personal impacts of the outbreak of World War II had on this part of the “homefront”: having to give up…
Jerry Lincoln, Mary L. Scott, Bobby Gibson, & Sheilie Lincoln at Scott’s Clayton Hall Road childhood home By Susan Freis Falknor Intro Published in the Blue Ridge Leader February 4, 2012: “Precious, precious memories” is how Marie Scott describes growing…
By Annabel Hughes I never found Carrington House, Carrington House found me When I first saw pictures of the house in the summer of 2003—sent to me in the mail by a realtor in Middleburg when I was living in…
By Susan Freis Falknor It hasn’t always been that easy in recent years to find Bluemont’s historic Snickersville Academy. Although the log structure, built in 1825, lies just behind the historic Carrington House, across Snickersville Turnpike from Clayton Hall, the…
Members and friends of the Bluemont United Methodist Church gathered on August 7, 2011—not simply for regular Sunday worship—but also to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the church. Judy Anderson presented a lively history of the church (below). She also…
By Susan Freis Falknor The dreams of Bluemonters for over a decade are beginning to be realized with the October-November drilling of a well to supply the E.E. Lake store. Valley Drilling, which sank the well, tapped into a flow…
