On Aug. 13, 1959, the Peninsula Enterprise newspaper reported that the new fisheries laboratory at Wachapreague had been opened. It was under the perview of the Virginia Fisheries Laboratory of Gloucester.
On Aug. 13, 1959, the Peninsula Enterprise reported that the committee working on a new country club for the Eastern Shore had chosen a name: the Eastern Shore Yacht and County Club. Potential sites for the club were being investigated in the Onancock and Exmore areas.
On Aug. 13, 1957, U.S. Navy Reserve Ensign Frank Akio Ouchi, 21, was killed after his airplane caught fire and crashed moments after taking off from the Chincoteague Naval Reserve Air Station at Wallops. The airplane crashed in nearby woods. Ouchi’s grave is in the Mounta Ouchi’s grave in the Mountain View Cemetery in Fresno, Calif.
On Aug. 13, 1953, Hurricane Barbara hit the Eastern Shore of Virginia, with damage to crops, public utilities, highways, and property estimated at several million dollars. In all 13.5 inches of rain fell into the following day.
On Aug. 13, 1952, an auction sale of rare antiques — the Peninsula Enterprise newspaper called it “the biggest and most important such event ever held on the Eastern Shore of Virginia" — was held at the American Legion hall in Belle Haven. Maybeth H. Long and Bill Saunders, of The Enchanted Cottage Antiques, Eastville, conducted the auction, assisted by Bozarth, of Williamsburg.
