Color postcard image showing a vehicle driving on US Highway 11 surrounded by area landscape. While the exact location of this image is unknown, the caption states it is near Woodstock Virginia.
Color postcard with a picture of the Inn at Narrow Passage located between Woodstock and Edinburg Virginia. The Inn is described as a log bed and breakfast built in the 1740s overlooking the Shenandoah River.
This photograph of bicycles for sale at the Schmitt Drugstore in Woodstock was taken sometime in the late 19th century. Around that time the country was experiencing a “bicycle craze.” This new form of transportation was popular among the members of…
Photograph showing the Shenandoah Fire Company's quarters on Court Street. Inside was a single hand powered engine and two hose reels. It was also home to the town offices and the militia company.
This picture shows a paper milk-bottle cap produced by Woodstock Virginia’s Ford-Cooley Dairy. The dairy was located just south of Woodstock near Narrow Passage. It operated from sometime in the 1930s until around 1960.
Little was recorded about horse-back riding at Massanutten Academy in 1940. Apparently most of it was done at Camp Lupton, the academy’s recreation center and maneuver grounds along the Shenandoah River east of town.
Newspaper clipping showing one of the observation towers built in Shenandoah County during the early part of World War Two. These sites were designed to watch for incoming enemy planes and to monitor US aircraft overhead. They were staffed by…
In 1949 the Shenandoah Valley Drive In Theatre opened just south of Woodstock Virginia. The theater had a single screen, large concession stand, and could accommodate 300 cars.
This operation opened at the time when Drive-In Theatres were…
On May 20th, 1899 William McKinley, President of the United States, travelled through Shenandoah County aboard a special B&O Railroad Coach. The President was returning to Washington DC after spending time vacationing in Hot Springs Virginia.…
Record of land transactions, including survey notes, for Joseph Pugh. The properties lay just north of Woodstock Virginia. One record indicates property conveyed to Pugh by Leonard Baldice and a second by the Lord Proprietor.
In 1915 the German Army released the effective Chlorine gas attack of World War One against British positions in Ypres. Before the end of the war these types of Chemical agents would kill or injure millions of men on both sides.
To combat these…