Today In History

March 4, 1965 — Sixty-six students of Page County High School miraculously escaped injury Monday afternoon when the school bus they were riding in rammed into the rear of an auto containing two other students […]

March 3, 1887 — The body of Abe Duncan, who was supposed to have been drowned in the river on Tuesday after January court, was found floating on the river last Thursday evening, about seven […]

March 2, 1989 — Page County scored 19 of the final 21 points to beat Rockbridge and win the Virginia High School League Group A state volleyball championship Saturday in Suffolk. After falling 15-7 in […]

March 1, 1962 — Miss Beverley McCoy, beautiful brunette and first runner-up in the 1961 Miss Ruritan contest, was chosen as Miss Ruritan for 1962 last Saturday evening at Page County High School. Miss McCoy, […]

February 29, 1889 — Dorsey Nichols, whose arrest and preliminary trial was noticed a week or so ago, was indicted by the grand jury on Monday and tried on Tuesday for abducting Elizabeth Rider, a […]

February 28, 1889 — When the northbound passenger train on the S.V.R.R, last Friday night, was within a mile of Bentonville it came in collision with a flat car loaded with railroad bars, which had […]