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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8K8_marys-rock-tunnel_Luray-VA.html
Drill, blast, and clear. Drill, blast, and clear. For three months workers repeated this process, carving through 600 feet of solid granite (granodiorite) to complete Skyline Drive's greatest construction challenge, Marys Rock Tunnel. Twice eac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8K5_rocks-older-than-mankind_Luray-VA.html
The only tunnel on the Skyline Drive passes for 700 feet through Mary's Rock Mountain. It was blasted out of granite-like rock. Only 1,300,000,000 years ago this rock was still molten magma.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8K4_through-the-gaps_Luray-VA.html
In the valley below, Highway 211 snakes its way through the town of Luray and connects Thornton Gap, 1/2 mile to your left on Skyline Drive, with New Market Gap, the low point in distant Massanutten Mountain. Luray and Route 211 illustrate how mou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8H3_pass-run-and-thornton-gap_Luray-VA.html
Nearly three weeks after the Battle of Gettysburg, and in the wake of a sharp fight near Front Royal at Wapping Heights (Manassas Gap) on July 23, 1863, Confederate troops from Gen. Richard S. Ewell's corps withdrew to the Page Valley. On July 25,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM73M_willow-grove-mill_Luray-VA.html
On October 2, 1864, elements of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry Division under Col. William H. Powell reached this area near Luray and quickly laid waste to the Willow Grove Mill. Amanda Moore, wife of the mill's owner, later recalled, "We had the Mill, Saw …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM50H_fort-philip-long_Luray-VA.html
Six miles south, near Alma, stands Fort Philip Long, a small Germanic stone dwelling with a massive end chimney. Constructed on the edge of a bank, the house is unusual in having two cellar levels, one below the other. A tunnel leads from the lowe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM508_fishers-hill-and-yagers-mill_Luray-VA.html
In September 1864, Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan detached two cavalry divisions under Gen. Alfred T. A. Torbert to move into the Page Valley. While the bulk of Sheridan's army would strike Gen. Jubal A. Early's Confederates at Fisher's Hill, Torbe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4ZX_massanutten-school_Luray-VA.html
This one-room school was originally located in the Massanutten section, west of Luray. Donated to the Page County Heritage Association by Thomas and Barbara Jenning, the c. 1880 building was moved to this site in 1974. Extensive renovation accompl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4ZQ_white-house-bridge_Luray-VA.html
On May 21, 1862. Confederate Gen. Thomas J."Stonewall" Jackson's Valley Army plodded northalong this road to threaten Front Royal and outflank Union Gen. Nathaniel Bank's position at Strasburg. With the addition of Gen. Richard S.Ewell's division,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4XT_page-county-shenandoah-county_Luray-VA.html
Page County. Area 322 square miles. Formed in 1831 from Shenandoah and Rockingham, and named for John Page, Governor of Virginia, 1802-1805. Luray cave is here. Shenandoah County. Area 510 square miles. Formed in 1772 from Frederick, and first …
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