Today In History

August 19, 1962 — Silco Cut Price Stores Inc. will open its new self-service discount store in Luray this morning at 9 a.m. The new store is located on Main Street at the southeast corner […]

August 18, 1889 — One day last week Messrs. Wm. H. Row, Daniel and William Mussellman and Hubert Finter, accompanied by several ladies, were on the Blue Ridge picking whortleberries when they came upon a […]

August 17, 1986 — Long lines of customers with filled grocery carts jammed the Luray Safeway Store on East Main Street this week when all items were offered at 50 percent off in advance of […]

August 16, 1965 — The site of Camp Roosevelt, in Fort Valley, the first Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp established in the United States in 1933, is destined to become a U.S. Forest Service recreational […]

August 15, 1887 — The Elder John K. Booton, of Luray, father of Dr. T.L. Booton, of Washington, Va., an Old School Baptist minister, while returning home from Fauquier, made an attempt to cross a […]

August 14, 1962 — During last Saturday night’s electric and rain storm, lightning struck the barn of Lewis Judd in the Sandy Hook neighborhood north of Luray. The building was completely destroyed by the resulting fire. […]