Today In History

October 29, 1964 — Members of the Mount Zion Church of the Brethren, three miles south of Luray, decided to do something about the unsightly appearance of the roadside leading to the church. For years […]

October 28, 1887 — Mr. Isaac S. Comer, son of Geo. H. Comer, Esq., who lives on the Hawksbill, near Stony Man, inflicted a painful wound on the forefinger of his left hand one day last […]

October 27, 1887 — Capt. M.V.B. Kite marshaled his forces one evening last week and attacked a regiment of rats that had taken possession and gone into winter quarters in his mill near Marksville, this county. […]

October 26, 1989 — Burner Well Drilling of McGaheysville is in the process of drilling a test hole to determine the feasibility of a bottled water plant near Shenandoah, according to Town Councilman Elmo Stanley. […]

October 25, 1990 — To say that the poultry industry is growing rapidly in Page County is a definite understatement. Some 70,000 birds are killed daily at Rockingham Poultry Inc. at Alma, which is in […]

October 24, 1889 — One day last week Mr. E.D. Varner, who lives near Stony Man, was engaged in removing a stack of hay from a field on his farm where he found under the […]