"Blue Mountain Memories," Richard Long's current book, resulted
from his building a vacation cabin at Blue Mountain in 1972. The
mountain was in the great range of 5 million Shenandoah Valley
acres owned by Lord Fairfax of Winchester. As a young man, George
Washington was hired by Lord Fairfax in 1748 to be his surveyor. It
is likely that Washington surveyed what was later to become Blue
Mountain. Mosby's Rangers, the Southern guerilla fighters of the
Civil War, hid out on the Mountain and made raids, from there, on
Union forces. The earliest settlers of what was to become Blue
Mountain and nearby Rattlesnake Mountain were escaped slaves. A
community still exists on Rattlesnake that is proud of its
African-American ancestors. The mountain came alive again in 1955
when an exuberant Frenchman and his wife, Henry and Colette de
Longfief, purchased 800 acres from lumberman James McDonald. They
named it Blue Mountain. This book is about the fascinating history
of the mountain and the people from all over the world who
eventually settled on the mountain.
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