Today In History

• FEBRUARY 6, 1986 — Taxi service is about to be restored to Page County after a hiatus of some three months. Last Nov. 14, Clarence Sirbaugh of Stanley closed his venerable Sirbaugh’s Taxi, after […]

• FEBRUARY 5, 1987 — Members of the Luray Fire Department and other volunteers worked to free a female Hereford which fell into any icy pond off Cave Hill Road Monday morning. Ralph Davis, the […]

• FEBRUARY 4, 1892 — The historic old Appomattox Courthouse building was destroyed by fire yesterday. All of the county records and court house furnishings were entirely consumed. Surrounding houses also caught, but were saved. […]

• FEBRUARY 3, 1887 — John Bush, a former trainman on the S.V.R.R., met with a terrible accident at Luray last Thursday morning about 2 o’clock. The freight train on which he had been employed […]

• FEBRUARY 2, 1987 — Major William Page Menefee, home from a year’s assignment in Vietnam, was honored last week by the Miller- Campbell-Baker Post No. 22 of the American Legion, when he was presented […]

• FEBRUARY 1, 1962 — It was a big thrill to Sammy Price recently when he was named a page for the 1962 General Assembly. Sammy is now hard at work in Richmond. He is […]