Ashby Family in Bluemont, Mid-1940s
Gladys Ashby
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 time. Her schoolbooks are piled up beside her.
Gladys Ashby was born on August 27, 1926, and died on March 21, 2002. This and other photos taken in Bluemont shown here were supplied by Linda Martz.
The railroad-era E.E. Lake Store is now being restored as a Loudoun Visitors’ Center through a partnership with Loudoun County and the Bluemont Citizens Association. The original mailboxes are still there.
Below there are two other Ashby photos taken around that time.
Doris & Nelson Ashby
Frank Ashby with his pet fox
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