From Blueridge Leader and Loudoun Today Bluemont Village is now home to a newly recognized historic site: the Snickersville Academy. Originally constructed in 1825, the Academy served as a schoolhouse, church, and community meeting space for the village. In 2010,…
By Susan Freis Falknor Judy Anderson’s tale of family life in Bluemont, going back more than a century, began with her great-grandfather Volney Osburn purchasing a farm off what is now Route 7, on the north edge of Snickersville. The…
William “Bill” Arthur Kelley, age 68 of Round Hill, VA died June 3, 2009, at INOVA Loudoun Hospital. Born on September 29, 194,0 in Bluemont, VA he was the son of the late Herman “Jim” and Hilda Kelley. Following his…
From an interview by Susan Freis Falknor, February 21, 2009 Winnie Kelley: Reminiscences of Bluemont and “Aunt Freddie” Osburn In 1962, Winifred (“Winnie”) Osburn Kelley, who grew up in the Bluemont area, was married in the living room of what…
By Susan Freis Falknor Bluemont friends and neighbors mourn the loss of Anne Plaster on February 20, 2009. Anne was an indefatigable, spirited New Englander (University of Maine 1954) who married into an old Bluemont family—that of Henry Plaster. …
By Susan Freis Falknor In its early 1900s’ heyday, the E.E. Lake Store was home to several different enterprises—a general store, a barbershop, a bank, the post office, and a meeting and dance hall upstairs—a variety of uses that might…
By Susan Freis Falknor Workmen. Trucks. Mega dumpsters. What is going on at the corner of Railroad Street and Snickersville Turnpike? Bluemont resident Jamie Hogan, who last year purchased the property across the turnpike from the new U.S. Post Office…
By Susan Freis Falknor From dropping off preschool children in the early morning to adult education classes in the evening, the Bluemont Community Center has typically been the busiest place in the village. Now, however, the center is quiet, having…
Long-time Bluemonter Henry Plaster in front of his barn with the Civil War cavalry pistol used by his Grandfather Henry Plaster, a Bluemont resident whose family reaches back to the Civil War era in the village, presented his year-by-year chronicle…
Deborah Bauers (Coates) is the daughter of Mary Hannah Kerrick, formerly of Bluemont, VA. Mary Hannah Kerrick, now 90 years old, has many cherished memories of the Bluemont area. She often recounts stories passed down through her family, including accounts…
