Photograph of Julia Virginia Fansler from the 1949 "The Beacon," Triplett High School Yearbook. Julia was the librarian at the school and a graduate of Madison College, now James Madiston University.
Oral history interview featuring Gwendolyn "Gwen" Tolliver Nickens conducted on February 5, 2016 for the Shenandoah County Library's Black History Month Program.
In 1964 Delois became the first African American student to attend what was then…
Postcard with a picture of the Confederate Monument located at Our Soldiers Cemetery in Mt. Jackson Virginia. Card notes 350 men were buried there, 112 unknown Confederates.
Postcard bearing an image labeled "High Street, Mt. Jackson, VA."
The postcard is dated 1907. The street pictured is now named Gospel Street. Railroad tracks and the rail embankment dominate the middle ground of the photograph.