Today In History

May 22, 1989 — The Page County Sheriff ’s Department started cracking down Monday on county residents who have not yet purchased the newly implemented county auto tag. The request for enforcement came at the […]

May 21, 1967 — John G. Foley, 35, director of instruction for the Page County Public Schools, has been appointed assistant supervisor of elementary education in the State Department of Education effective July 1, the […]

May 20, 1911 — Otis Rickard, inspired by near and distant rumblings of giant powder and dynamite, and seeing himself a contractor when Luray may perhaps at some day get its third supply of water […]

May 19, 1962 — Brown’s Gift Shop, Luray’s first, was sold this week to Jim and Helen Bradford, operators of The Little Snack Bar in West Luray. The purchase included the equipment, stock and the […]

May 18, 1889 — The Luray Female Seminary of this place, encouraged beyond its most sanguine expectations, determined to increase its capital stock to $10,000, the sum necessary to enlarge the buildings and to buy […]

May 17, 1890 — Last Friday Coroner Dr. Hudson received a dispatch from Shenandoah announcing the death of Thos. Coughlin at that place, which had occurred but a few hours before. The doctor went promptly […]