Today In History

August 16, 1986 — The Page County Board of Supervisors voted, 3-2, Monday to draft an ordinance which would ban topless waitressing and bartending, massage parlors and public “stripping” in the county. County Attorney Rodger […]

August 15, 1987 — For endurance rider Tom Sites, persistence paid off. Sites brought a gold medal back to Page County after helping the U.S. Equestrian Team capture the European Open Championship in Marloffstein, West Germany, […]

August 14, 1965 — The site of Camp Roosevelt, in Fort Valley, the first Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp established in the United States in 1933, is destined to become a U.S. Forest Service recreational […]

August 13, 1911 — One of the fastest and most exciting games of baseball seen in Page Valley in many a day took place on the Shenandoah diamond Tuesday afternoon when the Stanley baseball team […]

August 12, 1961 — Henry Jewell, 55, was severely injured last Friday when attacked by a 1,600 pound bull on his place in the Morning Star section. Mr. Jewell, in company with a friend, had […]

August 10, 1991 — A lot of people have enjoyed the splendor of the South Fork of the Shenandoah River from a canoe. But few have experienced the river the way 14 Boy Scouts did […]