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 along the ridgeline of…
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. Albans School in…
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 Baptist Theological Seminary in…
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…
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…
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, 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 Rector Mitchell. He retired…
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 1909-1912. Zobel…
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!…
