Today In History

January 28, 1987 — Three Shenandoah firefighters suffered injuries early Monday morning while battling a structure fire which severely damaged a residence on U.S. 340. The residence was owned by Lynn Jenkins, according to Shenandoah […]

January 27, 1887 — The warm days and showers of the last week have brightened the faces of the wheat fields. Now who will start a creamery in Page this spring? They are enterprises that pay […]

January 26, 1911 — While at Oak Hill last week, we found Mr. Wood, the merchant, doing a big business. He is carrying the biggest stock of merchandise ever handled by any merchant at Oak […]

January 25, 1889 — The lumber men are shipping great quantities of white oak lumber north from this place.  The mill of Mr. Wm. F. Welfley caught fire one night last week, and in trying […]

January 24, 1962 — Gerald D. Hartley, 40, who escaped from the federal penitentiary at Greenville, S.C., on Jan. 12, was apprehended near Luray last Thursday night by Page County Deputy Sheriff Aldine Painter. Hartley […]

January 23, 1964 — U.S. and state agents descending on a large poultry house in Steam Hollow near Shenandoah, on Saturday of last week, discovered a complete distillery on the second floor. A record haul […]