Ryand “Bert” Ruble, W&OD Engineer
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 ...
Bluemonter Jerome Fanciulli, Publicist of Early Flight
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 ...
Introducing Ashford Weadon, Early Patriarch of Carrington House
By Mark Weadon and Kandy Higenbotham A few Bluemonters today still remember Mollie Weadon, who lived in the old stone Carrington House. She housed and fed travelers and summer guests in the early decades of the 20th century until her ...
The Ancestry and Inheritance of William Clayton
By Donald S. Coram 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 ...
Bluemont Celebrates 190th Anniversary of Snickersville Academy
By Susan Freis Falknor Photos by Cynthia Morris On May 16, Bluemonters celebrated the 190th anniversary of the village’s first school and church, the venerable Snickersville Acacamy. Many who helped with Friends of ...
Bluemont’s Clayton Hall Hosted 1817 Meeting for First Operating U.S Turnpike
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 ...
Ashby Family in Bluemont, Mid-1940s
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 ...
Costello & Carter: Families Living in Snickersville Academy-1930s & 1940s
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 ...