Today In History

November 24, 1911 — While on a hunting trip recently George and Ed Seekford, aged from 18 to 20 years, sons of J.W. Seekford, and T.J. Seekford’s son, Reuben Seekford, a youth of about the […]

November 23, 1961 — Petite Miss Joyce Griffith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Griffith of Stanley, was selected the first Miss Page County High School in a beauty pageant, sponsored by the senior class […]

November 22, 1962 — While heads of the houses prowled the ridges and valleys of the Massanutten Monday of this week in quest of deer, the wives of two luckless Page County huntsmen dispatched one […]

November 21, 1889 — The preliminary surveys so far seem to favor Beahm’s Gap as the point at which the Washington R.R. will cross the Blue Ridge, thence northward down the eastward slope of the […]

November 20, 1986 — VF Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lawrence R. Pugh announced the completion of the acquisition of Blue Bell Holding Company Inc., effective Monday. Blue Bell has manufacturing plants at Luray […]

November 19, 1987 — A Shenandoah man and woman were arrested Monday evening in connection with an October fire that destroyed Shenandoah Memorial Stadium, Sheriff E.M. Sedwick said Tuesday morning. Damage estimates were unavailable, but […]