by 6sg439hgjhs | Dec 4, 2022
Edwin L. Lucas served as Sheriff of Page County from 1920 through 1936. Included here are an article detailing a gun battle with Lucas and other local police, as well as a forced removal of two Page County residents from within Shenandoah National Park. At the time,...
by 6sg439hgjhs | Dec 4, 2022
[Summarized] Rockingham and Page County Officers received a tip that Alger was hiding in a house in Jollet Hollow. A posse was formed around the house at 2am. Shortly before daybreak, Alger and a companion left the house. Lucas yelled for the men to stop. The...
by 6sg439hgjhs | Dec 3, 2022
Nathan Tazewell Sedwick and his wife, Mary Frances Keyser Sedwick, are pictured here in this photo, circa 1890. They were the parents of nine children. Nathan served as sheriff of Page County from 1904 to 1920. Three Sedwick brothers married three Keyser...
by 6sg439hgjhs | Dec 3, 2022
A Roman Revival-style courthouse, the Page County Courthouse was completed on December 23, 1833 at a cost of $6,000. The building was designed and built by two of Thomas Jefferson’s master builders, Malcolm F. Crawford, carpenter, and William P. Phillips. mason. For...
by 6sg439hgjhs | Dec 2, 2022
The Virginia General Assembly established Page County on March 30, 1831. Back then, small communities consisted of a store, church, school, flour mill, post office, blacksmith shop, the Shenandoah Railroad, and of course, the local Sheriff’s Office. That same...
