Today In History

May 26, 1887 — Mr. Thomas H. Menefee, son of Mr. G.G. Menefee, of this county, left Page 15 years ago, when only a boy aged 20. He now lives in Terra Haute, Ind., and […]

May 24, 1962 — A broken bottled gas line feeding a cooking range caused a small fire at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cave, near SNP headquarters Thursday afternoon of last week. As […]

May 23, 1889 — The Roanoke excursion last Wednesday numbered between 300 and 400 persons. There were some 10 or 12 from Page, the remainder being generally from Hagerstown. On the return of the train, […]

May 22, 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 21, 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 20, 1965 — A 16-year-old boy luckily escaped injury in Luray at 11:05 Tuesday morning of this week when his bicycle ran into the side of a moving Norfolk and Western locomotive at the […]