Page News & Courier

Article of 12/2/1999 - Was John Lederer the first European to lay eyes on Page? (1669)

Article of 10/21/1999 - The plight and flight of Page County's German immigrants (1688-1709+)

Article of 11/18/1999 - A people or a liquor? - the Scots/Scotch-Irish debate

Article of 10/23/1997 - Development of the "Massanutten Tract" - a German-Swiss Colony (1669-1726)

Article of 2/24/2000 - The 'fort homes' and historical interpretation (1728-1827)

Article of 10/1/1998 - Connection between Rev. John Casper Stoever and Elder John Koontz (1733-1831)

Article of 3/23/2000 - Setting the record straight: Native American raids in Pre-Page (1758-1765)

Article of 10/11/2001 - What lay beneath 18th century Native American Raids in the area Part 1 (1650-1756)

Article of 10/25/2001 - What lay beneath 18th century Native American Raids in the area Part 2 (1754-1765)

Article of 7/27/2000 - Slavery in the 'German element' may have rooted from an influential minister (1739-1764)

Article of 12/13/2001 - Captain Michael Rader’s Company of Virginia Militia (1775-1777)

Article of 10/5/2000 - Muhlenberg's revolutionary inspiration to Valley Germans (1776)

Article of 1/11/2001 - The legacies that accompany Page County's name

Article of 12/4/1997 - Early Geographical History of Page County

Article of 11/6/1997 - In the Wake of Nat Turner: Controversy over Slavery in Page (1831-1842)

Article of 11/20/1997 - The Controversial 19th Century Murder of John Wesley Bell (1842)

Article of 3/18/1999 - How the slave woman "Old Sill" ran the Charles C. Dovel Household (1820-1872)

Article of 6/17/1999 - A Forgotten People -- Page County's Antebellum Population of Free African-Americans (1831-1861)

Article of 9/2/1999 - A Review of the Family Profiles of the Antebellum African-American Population in Page County (1860-61)

Article of 8/24/2000 - Clarifying a few details in the narrative of Bethany Veney (1840s & 50s)

Article of 1/6/2000 - A former Page citizen, Abraham Lincoln and the winds of war (1860-61)

Article of 5/7/1998 - A Yankee Represented Page in the 1861 Secession Convention (April 1861)

Article of 7/22/1999 - Thomas Jordan -- Page County's Earliest Accomplished Military Leader & Noted Journalist (May 1861)

Article of 12/18/1997 - Gallant Leaders of the "Page Volunteers" Company K, 10th Virginia Infantry (May 1861)

Article of 6/4/1998 - Marching with Stonewall - Leaders and Men of the 'Page Grays' (June 1861)

Article of 3/9/2000 - Page County's sole artillery battery - the Dixie Artillery (June 1861)

Article of 6/15/2000 - Page County's Confederate Reserve & Militia Organizations (1861 - 1865)

Article of 4/6/2000 - Page's soldier-farmers and militia dilemma in the Civil War (August 1861)

Article of 7/2/1998 - An Early History of Page County's White House Bridge (April 1862)

Article of 11/22/2001 - Jackson’s first efforts at burning the bridges of Page County (April 1862)

Article of 10/9/1997 - Bloodshed on the River - A Little Known Civil War Action in Page (May 1862)

Article of 1/7/1999 - One Yankee's Recollections of Marching through Page (May 1862)

Article of 8/10/2000 - Price's Mill - witness to the last days of the 1862 Valley Campaign (June 1862)

Article of 9/3/1998 - Page County and the Insult of Two General Orders (July 1862)

Article of 9/17/1998 - An Unwelcome Summer Expedition to Luray (July 1862)

Article of 6/18/1998 - White's 'Commanches' included Leaders, Men of Grabill's Company E (July 1862)

Article of 11/29/2001 - A casualty of war – the family of George W. Summers, Sr. (August 1862)

Article of 12/21/2000 - Grand 'parade' and the last passage of Stonewall from the Valley (November 1862)

Article of 5/20/1999 - The Stern Discipline of Stonewall Jackson and the Hard-Luck Page Grays (February 1863)

Article of 5/4/2000 - A sad tale of two Civil War Soldiers, Part 1 (March 1863)

Article of 5/18/2000 - A sad tale of two Civil War Soldiers, Part 2 (March 1863)

Article of 1/25/2001 - Some on the retreat from Gettysburg found passage through Page (July 1863)

Article of 4/20/2000 - Federal Cavalry and the December 1863 Raid on Luray (December 1863)

Article of 12/16/1999 - Action at Overall may have prolonged the Civil War (September 1864)

Article of 6/3/1999 - An English Yankee and the Only Medal of Honor Earned on Page County Soil (September 1864)

Article of 7/13/2000 - One Page County Confederate's Tale of the war, the "Burning" and comrades (October 1864)

Article of 5/17/2001 - Page execution: Marylanders fall for defying barn-burners, part 1 (October 1864)

Article of 5/31/2001 - Page execution: Marylanders fall for defying barn-burners, part 2 (October 1864)

Article of 6/7/2001 - Page execution: Marylanders fall for defying barn-burners, the conclusion (October 1864)

Article of 3/8/2000 - Who was the man behind the Summers-Koontz execution?(June 1865)

Article of 3/12/1998 - County had Not-So-Pleasant Prisoner-of-War Experience

Article of 11/2/2000 - Did Page County African-Americans serve for the Confederacy?

Article of 11/16/2000 - Why did Page take a stand? Seeking an answer to the Confederate question

Article of 2/8/2001 - The return of Union soldiers to Page . . . after the war: Part 1

Article of 2/22/2001 - The return of Union soldiers to Page . . . after the war: Part 2

Article of 5/3/2001 - A 'clasping of hands' - the 1881 Luray reunion

Article of 4/1/1999 - The Original Summers-Koontz Memorial of 1893

Article of 12/17/1998 - Page County's Civil War Claims Amounted to Only One Percent

Article of 9/16/1999 - Former Page Confederate Served as Speaker of U.S. House

Article of 11/4/1999 - James Huffman's 'Ups and Downs of a Confederate Soldier'

Article of 1/29/1998 - "But I know my great-great-grandaddy served in the Civil War"

Article of 2/5/1998 - Sources Abound for Information on Local Civil War Ancestors

Article of 5/21/1998 - Daughters of the Confederacy in Page County

Article of 3/4/1999 - Early Confederate Veteran & Descendant Organizations in Page

Article of 2/18/1999 - The Winnie Davis Cottage (Luray Orphanage)

Article of 5/6/1999 - The Origins of the Aleshire/Aleshite/Elscheit Family

Article of 10/19/2000 - Origins of the Broyles Family in Page County

Article of 9/18/1997 - Patriarch of the Cave family in Page County

Article of 7/19/2001 - The other residents of the Ruffner House - the Chapman family

Article of 8/2/2001 - Page's fighting Chapman brothers - postwar life

Article of 3/22/2001 - The Irish Dorraugh-Dorrough-Derrough family of Page

Article of 4/15/1999 - The Dovel Family & an Introduction to the Terror Experienced by the French Huguenots

Article of 2/19/1998 - The Early Hillyard/Hilliard/Hilliards Family Lines

Article of 4/5/2001 - Five brides, a witch and a deadly curse (re: Charles Robert Hilliard)

Article of 4/23/1998 - Current Genealogical Work Regarding Michael and Mary Kiser

Article of 10/1/1998 - Connection between Rev. John Casper Stoever and Elder John Koontz

Article of 4/9/1998 - Discovering the Roots of the Page County Nauman Families

Article of 7/1/1999 - The Trek of the Nicholson Family -- Whitehaven, England to Virginia to the Valley

Article of 8/6/1998 - Thomas Purdom and his role in the American Revolution

Article of 8/16/2001 - The Roudabush Family of Page County, Part I

Article of 8/30/2001 - The Roudabush Family of Page County, Part II

Article of 11/08/2001 - The Stoneberger Family of Page County

Article of 1/14/1999 - The Hessian and a Case of Good Fortune - the Strole-Keyser connection

Article of 11/29/2001 - A casualty of war – the family of George W. Summers, Sr.

Article of 1/8/1998 - "Surfing" Your Way to Page County Genealogical Research

Article of 10/22/1998 - Researching your Family History may be just a Web Site Away

Article of 2/4/1999 - America's Wars Have Left a Long Paper Trail for Genealogists

Article of 11/19/1998 - Interpretation of History often Strays from Documented Fact

Article of 12/3/1998 - Pass Down those Nostalgic Tales to Future Generations

Article of 2/10/2000 - Genealogical Research may also include World Wide Web

Article of 4/2/1998 - So just who is this upstart columnist?

Article of 6/25/1998 - Virginians get to your posts for Gettysburg's 135th Anniversary Reenactment

Article of 8/20/1998 - Anniversary Date Targeted for Summers-Koontz Roadside Marker

Article of 11/5/1998 - History, a researcher, and one of many spooky ironies

Article of 8/5/1999 - The Need of Keeping Page County's Documented History in Page County -- Part 1

Article of 8/19/1999 - The Need of Keeping Page County's Documented History in Page County -- Part 2

Article of 10/7/1999 - Living back in the mighty Shenandoah

Article of 1/20/2000 - Page's part in the early history of the Baptist Church in Virginia

Article of 6/29/2000 - That which is important to preserve and why

Article of 9/07/2000 - Page County Civil War Commission Update

Article of 9/21/2000 - Milam's Gap and the legendary Milam Apple

Article of 4/19/2001 - Page was once known for orchards and new apple varieties

Article of 11/30/2000 - Honoring our veterans with a headstone is an easy process

Article of 6/21/2001 - What's in a name: Luray and Shenandoah

Article of 7/4/2001 - Virginia Civil War Trails and marking Page County history

Article of 9/13/2001 - Belsnickling - when dressing in costumes wasn’t just for Halloween

Article of 9/27/2001 - Fall Celebrations of Heritage and the Spirit of America

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