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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 ...
Great Stalacpipe Organ. Appearance. Coordinates: 38°39′51.5″N78°29′1.7″W38.664306°N 78.483806°W. Console of the organ, an electrically actuated lithophone. The Great Stalacpipe Organ is an electrically actuated lithophone located in Luray Caverns, Virginia, USA. Covering 3.5 acres of the cavern, it is considered the world's largest ...
Trichopetalum whitei, common name Luray Caverns blind cave millipede, is a rare troglobitic (obligate cavernicolous) millipede of the upper Potomac River drainage in four Virginia counties and three West Virginia counties. It has been recorded from 12 caves across this range, including the Luray Caverns where it was first discovered and described.
Virginia’s Luray Caverns are the best kept East Coast secret. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. Sign in ...
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]
Keyes was born in Luray, Virginia, the daughter of Charles Wesley Keyes and Mary Ela Zerkel Keyes. [1] [2] Her father was an accountant, and her mother was a singer.Her grandfather Lemuel Zerkel was superintendent of Luray Caverns, [3] and her uncle Lemuel F. Zerkel was U.S. Park Commissioner at Shenandoah National Park. [4]
Shenandoah Valley. The Shenandoah Valley (/ ˌʃɛnənˈdoʊə /) is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States. The Valley is bounded to the east by the Blue Ridge Mountains, to the west by the eastern front of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians (excluding ...
September 2, 2024 at 11:41 AM. One of the largest collections of country music artifacts has a new home in Nashville, Tennessee, and country music icon Marty Stuart is behind the historic donation ...