Members and friends of the Bluemont United Methodist Church gathered on August 7, 2011—not simply for regular Sunday worship—but also to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the church. Judy Anderson presented a lively history of the church (below). She also…
By Susan Freis Falknor The dreams of Bluemonters for over a decade are beginning to be realized with the October-November drilling of a well to supply the E.E. Lake store. Valley Drilling, which sank the well, tapped into a flow…
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…
July 10, 2009 My Home on the Ridge -- Philip E. Taylor When I received a membership renewal this January from Friends of Bluemont along with a letter asking for stories about “your house” I was intrigued. Through the years that I’ve lived in my home, I have heard many stories about the house and [...]
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…
