August 23, 1965 — A hearing held here last Thursday by the Highway Department to get local opinion on a proposed U.S. 211 bypass for Luray failed to develop any concrete results except to point up differences in opinion as to the effect of such a bypass on local business.
Representatives of the Luray Caverns strongly supported the opinion that the bypass would benefit both the Caverns and town while others were just as insistent that a bypass would shunt potential business around the town and concentrate it at the Caverns where the bypass under present routing would terminate.
~ From the public archives of the Page News and Courier
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There’s already a bypass north of business 211 downtown Luray now. This makes as much sense as the roundabout!
Dennis Cubbage …. please check the date of the story you just read. It occurred in 1965. It’s our “Today in History” feature.