February 2, 1892 — About half-past nine o’clock Wednesday night our citizens noticed a brilliant illumination of the lofty peaks, known as Stony Man, four miles southeast of this place. The next morning the information reached us that it was occasioned by the burning of the large summer hotel built a few years ago near the summit of the peak, by Mr. A.C. Barr, a worthy young man of Washington City. We have heard no explanation of the fire, though it is generally thought to have been of incendiary origin, as the hotel, being intended only for summer boarders, had been unoccupied several months. The property we learn was not insured.
~ From the public archives of the Page News and Courier
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