Today In History

February 7, 1987 — Members of the Luray Fire Department and other volunteers worked to free a female Hereford which fell into any icy pond off Cave Hill Road Monday morning. Ralph Davis, the owner […]

February 6, 1887 — A box, said to contain a set of burglar’s tools, more or less completed, was captured at the express office in this place last Friday evening. The box, directed to Geo. […]

February 5, 1989 — Luray residents watching Super Bowl XXIII on Adelphia Cable missed the final 1:34 of the game — including the game-winning touchdown — because of a blown fuse in a power supply, […]

February 4, 1911 — While at Oak Hill last week, we found Mr. Wood, the merchant, doing a big business. He is carrying the biggest stock of merchandise ever handled by any merchant at Oak […]

February 3, 1964 — U.S. and state agents descending on a large poultry house in Steam Hollow near Shenandoah, on Saturday of last week, discovered a complete distillery on the second floor. A record haul […]

February 2, 1892 — About half-past nine o’clock Wednesday night our citizens noticed a brilliant illumination of the lofty peaks, known as Stony Man, four miles southeast of this place. The next morning the information […]