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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.
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.
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 ...
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 absorbed the Shenandoah Valley Railroad in 1890, plans ...
Population centers. Luray. Borders on. Blue Ridge Mountains (east) Massanutten Mountain (west) Traversed by. U.S. Route 211, U.S. Route 340. The Page Valley is a small valley geographically and culturally associated with the Shenandoah Valley. The valley is located between the Massanutten and Blue Ridge mountain ranges in western Virginia.
Shenandoah National Park lies along the Blue Ridge Mountains in north-central Virginia. These mountains form a distinct highland rising to elevations above 4,000 feet (1,200 m). Local topographic relief between the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley exceeds 3,000 feet (900 m) at some locations. The crest of the range divides the ...