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For community residents Feb. 12 marked the exchange of real estate here as Longlea, the 844 acre tract just off of Route 522, was sold to the Roman Catholic organization of Opus Dei for $7.4 million dollars. Longlea name will not disappear but will be named Longlea Conference Center and the entire purchase price was supplied by an anonymous donor.
A Texas woman by the name of Alice Glass had purchased the land from the Smith family and built on it in the 1930’s.
Charles Marsh, another Texan, came to Virginia about the same time and later he and Alice were married. The year 1933 saw the building of the manor house with 16 rooms and a swimming pool and also a stable being built on the property.
The Freedom Studies Center of the American Security Council purchased the property some 30 years later and have used the property for Cold War seminars and issues; which also has served as employment for a great number of people through the years past.
Our prayers of sympathy go out to Mr. Glenn Cave and his family of Route 707, upon the loss of his sister, Mrs. Effie May Cave Ryder of Luray who passed away on Sunday, Feb. 18.
Andrew Clinedinst of Scrabble Road, and other
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