Year: 2025

May 28, 1986 — The former Stanley Town Office building was demolished last Wednesday after an agreement was reached between the town and Farmers and Merchants bank. The town originally agreed to level the structure […]

May 26, 1891 — The Gem Furnace has blown in and is again in full operation. The miners stacked upon the furnace grounds during the period of making repairs about 12,000 tons of splendid iron […]

May 25, 1887 — Mrs. Wm. Dingus on Wednesday of last week caught with a net at Long’s Mill, on the Shenandoah River, a German carp, weighing nine pounds. The fish was weighed carefully and […]