Today In History

• 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 […]

January 31, 1991 — Flags fluttered in the late January breeze as some 300 persons marched through Shenandoah Saturday in support of the U.S. Troops in the Persian Gulf. Speaking to the crowd gathered in […]