Remembering the Victims of TWA Flight 514 50 Years Later

On the morning of December 1, 1974, TWA Flight 514 departed from Indianapolis, Indiana, en route to Washington, DC, with a stopover in Columbus, Ohio. Tragically, the plane never reached its final destination. The aircraft crashed ...

Henry Plaster (1928-2022)

Henry Garnett Plaster, Jr., 93, of Bluemont, Virginia, passed away peacefully on March 21, 2022. Henry was born July 26, 1928, to Henry Garnett Plaster, Sr., and Jerusha Lohman Plaster in Washington, DC. After graduating from St. ...

Evelyn Porterfield Johnson (1937-2021)

Evelyn Porterfield Johnson was born in Kansas City, Missouri on January 7, 1937, and moved to the Washington area as a child. She graduated from Eastern Baptist College now Eastern University near Philadelphia and attended Southeastern ...

Marie Scott (1938-2020)

Marie A. Scott, 82, of Bluemont, departed this life on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, at Inova Loudoun Nursing and Rehab Center in Leesburg, VA. She was born and raised and was a lifelong resident of Bluemont, VA.  She graduated from Douglass ...

Bluemont Reopens E.E. Lake General Store After Seven Decades

By Renss Greene Originally published in Loudoun Now A piece of Bluemont history reopened to the public on Saturday, more than 70 years after the last business there closed. Built by Edward E. Lake in about 1901, the two-story building ...

African Americans in Early Bluemont

Before the Civil War, James Fields, a free African American, became the first to own property on the Blue Ridge slope behind what is now the Bluemont General Store. In the years following the war, Benjamin Franklin Young trained under ...

Martin Mitchell (1930-2017)

Martin Mitchell, 87, of Bluemont, Virginia, died Saturday, October 14, 2017, in Greenfield Senior Living of Berryville. Mr. Mitchell was born March 25, 1930, in Upperville, Virginia, the son of the late Michael Mitchell and Daisy ...

Author John Zobel Visits Martin Mitchell, Exploring the Bluemont Connection to Early Flight

By Susan Freis Falknor Author John Zobel of Seattle visited Martin Mitchell on December 5, 2016, to fill in his mental picture of Jerome Fanciulli, a publicist of early flight, who worked for aircraft pioneer Glenn Curtiss from ...

Bluemont log cabin

The 2016 Bluemont Fair Features the Newly Renovated Snickersville Academy & an Indian Village

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 ...

The newly restored Snickersville Academy

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 ...

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