Today In History

December 1, 1889 — A correspondent says that an engineer corps, with headquarters at Luray, is now engaged making preliminary surveys across the Blue Ridge for the proposed railroad to run from Luray to Washington […]

November 30, 1891 — That was a business-like blow that fell down upon Luray last Monday morning about 11 o’clock. It came without warning, and for a few minutes no such storm was ever witnessed […]

November 29, 1965 — Two local teenage boys found out the hard way last week in Page County Court that it is expensive to race automobiles on the highways. Judge Mark D. Woodward found the […]

November 28, 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 27, 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 26, 1887 — Mr. James Laconia’s dwelling, about one mile southeast of Luray, near Mr. Wm. Row’s, was destroyed by fire about 10 o’clock last Friday night, together with every vestige of property. The […]