Today In History

August 7, 1961 — With only some 30 days to go, work is being pushed to get Page County schools in readiness for the first day of school on Sept. 5. This year will mark […]

August 6, 1889 — The large and handsome building of the Luray Female Institute is about completed. The work reflects credit upon the builders, Messrs. C.L.&N.R. Proctor, and if anything could add to their reputation […]

August 5, 1986 — Keith Henry is devising a program which will allow computers, linked by telephone lines, to draw to each other. The Luray resident says his program — slated to retail for $95 […]

August 4, 1990 — Fort Rhodes, one of Page County’s most important historic landmarks, was completely destroyed in a lightning-set blaze Friday night. Only two chimneys, the old cellar fort believed to have been a […]

August 3, 1962 — Stanley stopped Luray from making a run-way of the Massanutten League on Sunday as Howard Painter, big right-hander, struck out 17 Luray batters to chalk up a 5-2 mound win. Bill […]

August 2, 1991 — Citing a newly purchased vocational school, a mandated landfill and school construction projects as financial woes, the Page County Board of Supervisors voted recently to place a meals tax on the […]