Category 2018 Posts

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…