Word: bluemont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miles from Washington "over fair dirt roads." This is news to your readers who live on the main road between these points and who travel daily over the paved State highway which covers the greater part of the distance. Between Leesburg, county seat of Loudoun County, and Bluemont at the foot of the mountain, there remain a few short stretches of "fair dirt roads" broken by stretches of paving through the villages. We venture the prophecy that by the time Mount Weather is fitted for Presidential occupancy the White House chauffeur will have...
Mount Weather, as the $500,000 abandoned station is called, sits in an 87-acre tract, six miles up a rocky road from Bluemont, Va. Washington, east by southeast, lies 55 miles away over fair dirt roads- an easy journey for the Presidential motor of a Friday afternoon...
When the President is in Alaska and Congress is at home, where do foreign diplomats at Washington go? Bluemont in the hills back of Washington is the usual spot, but lately they have been taking to Atlantic City and the neighboring shore. The Polish and Venezuelan Ministers, and the Brazillian Ambassador have all chosen the New Jersey Coast for their aestivations...
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