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Website. www.townofluray.com. Luray is the county seat of Page County, Virginia, United States, [6] in the Shenandoah Valley in the northern part of the Commonwealth. The population was 4,895 at the 2010 census. [4] The town was founded by William Staige Marye in 1812, a descendant of a family native to Luray, France. [7]
Luray Caverns, previously Luray Cave, is a cave just west of Luray, Virginia, United States, which has drawn many visitors since its discovery in 1878. The cavern system is adorned with speleothems such as columns, mud flows, stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, and mirrored pools. The caverns host the Great Stalacpipe Organ, a lithophone made ...
Website. www.pagecounty.virginia.gov. Page County is located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,709. [1] Its county seat is Luray. [2] Page County was formed in 1831 from Shenandoah and Rockingham counties and was named for John Page, Governor of Virginia from 1802 to 1805.
March 19, 2003 [ 2 ] Luray Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Luray, Page County, Virginia. The district includes 75 contributing buildings, 1 contributing structure, and 3 contributing objects in the central business district of the town of Luray. They include residential, commercial, governmental, and ...
During the American Civil War, it was known as the Luray Valley since Luray, Virginia (the county seat of Page County) is located in the center of Page Valley.The valley played a significant role in the strategy of Confederate Major General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson during his Valley Campaign of 1862 in which he defeated three numerically superior Union armies.
The Shenandoah River / ˌʃɛnənˈdoʊə / is the principal tributary of the Potomac River, 55.6 miles (89.5 km) long with two forks approximately 100 miles (160 km) long each, [3] in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia. The river and its tributaries drain the central and lower Shenandoah Valley and the Page Valley in the ...
The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [ 1] There are 33 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 1 National Historic Landmark. Another property was once listed but has been removed.
January 27, 2000 [1] Designated VLR. December 1, 1999 [4] The Luray Norfolk and Western Passenger Station is a historic train station located in Luray, Virginia, United States. The Shenandoah Valley Railroad reached Luray in 1881 and constructed a station near where the present station is located. Shortly after the Norfolk and Western Railway ...