A Little Blue Ridge History

I found these photos on a disk in my collection. They had dates of capture of 04/2009 on them. I believe I took pictures of pages of a booklet of history on Blue Ridge that was available at that time at Colonial Elementary School. I was researching a series of stories on Blue Ridge for The Fincastle Herald at that time. - A. F.

Major Kent

From The Roanoke Times
Historical Community Calendar
September 7, 2009

1934 (75 years ago)

"Apparently as indifferent as any person in the packed courtroom, Major Robert C. Kent, Jr. ... sat in circuit court here [Fincastle] this afternoon at 3:30 and heard read a jury verdict that said he was guilty of kidnapping Mrs. Mary Jane Hastings, 50, from Blue Ridge Springs."

Blue Ridge Springs

1933: "Purchase of the Blue Ridge Springs Hotel by Major Robert Kent, of Beacon, N.Y., dissolved the Blue Ridge Springs Hotel Co., Inc. ... and placed the resort under new management."

From Looking Back: The Roanoke Times, June 9, 2008.