Today In History

October 22, 1965 — When vehicles carrying about 60 wounded American soldiers stalled in a swollen river in Korea in 1951, Eugene W. Lillard, of Front Royal, and a native of Luray, was one of […]

October 21, 1887 — Last Saturday, Mr. G.T. Sanford came into town and gave information against Joseph Dawson, who he alleged had made a criminal assault upon a daughter of his, aged about 12 years. […]

October 20, 1989 — The pastors of area churches say that while they were happy to have free utility service, they understand why the town must now charge every customer — even itself. “It doesn’t […]

October 19, 1961 — Stanley’s Police Chief Weldon W. Painter, 51, died suddenly of a heart attack at eight o’clock Sunday evening, Oct. 15. Mr. Painter was stricken in the Page County Sheriff ’s Office […]

October 18, 1990 — The Page County Board of Supervisors last week protested the closing of the Social Security office in Luray. Representatives from the office will no longer have Thursday office hours in Page […]

October 17, 1962 — A huge walnut tree, said by Frank Kiblinger to be the largest ever taken from Page County, was felled this week on the Lawrence Foltz land and transported to a shipping […]