Looking West from Mountain View Inn, Some of the Spurs on Shenandoah Mountain and the Scenery lying West of Inn, Zepp, Va.
Shenandoah County (Va)
Mountains - Virginia
Postcard with a picture of scenery in Zepp Virginia taken from the Mountain View Inn.
An unidentified individual has changed the caption to read "great north" Mountain instead of Shenandoah Mountain.
The image was taken and published by Hugh Morrison of Woodstock Virginia.
It appears to be part of a series of two postcards produced advertising the Mountain View Inn located in Zepp Virginia.
"H. Morrison Jr. Woodstock, Va."
Herb Parker Postcard Collection
Shenandoah County Library
1916
COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED
The second postcard produced to advertise the Mountain View Inn is image 116 of the Herb Parker Postcard Collection.
115
Cleda Orndorff Conner
Conner, Cleda Orndorff (1888-1985)
Women-Virginia-Shenandoah County
Photograph of Cleda Orndorff Conner.
Published in the Shenandoah Herald on May 20, 1969 as part of their "Country Kitchens" series.
Cleda Orndorff was born August 9 1888 in Zepp Virginia where she would live her entire life. In 1915 she married Grover Cleveland Conner, a farmer in the community. They had one daughter, Annabelle Conner, and three sons Willard, Marshall, and Joseph.
Cleda worked hard during her farm life raising animals, canning, making her own butter, and baking bread among other things. In a 1969 Shenandoah Herald article she stated "Lots of hard work, but I enjoyed it."
She was also active in the Zepp home demonstration group, having hosted their first meeting in 1934, the Cedar Creek Christian Church, the Christian Women's Fellowship, and the Cedar Creek Community Center.
Cleta died in 1985 and is buried at the Cedar Creek Cemetery in Zepp.
Shenandoah Herald
Shenandoah-Valley Herald Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Shenandoah County Library
May 20, 1969
COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED
Oshal Lofton Report Card, 1938-1939
Lofton, Oshal
Fairmount Graded School (Shenandoah County Va)
Public Schools-Virginia-Shenandoah County
Pitte, Alma
First grade report card issued to Oshal Lofton for the 1938-1939 session of school at the Fairmount Graded School near Zepp in Shenandoah County Virginia. It was issued by the teacher Alma Pitte.
Unknown
Fairmount Graded School, Shenandoah County, VA, General Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Shenandoah County Library
1938-1939
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC)
English
Document
18-0904-011
18-0904-012
St. James Lutheran Church, Zepp, Va.
St. James Lutheran Church (Zepp Va)
Postcard with a picture of St. James Lutheran Church located in Zepp Virginia.
Herb Parker Postcard Collection
Shenandoah County Library
1916
Not to be republished without permission
Image
English
113
School House Zepp Va.
Public Schools-Virginia-Shenandoah County
Zepp (Va)
Shenandoah County (Va)
Postcard bearing the image of the "Schoolhouse" in Zepp Virginia.
The school was also called "Central School." It is located along Zepp Road and opened in 1885. In 1939 it closed. Today it is home to the Cedar Creek Community Center and voting precinct.
Herb Parker Postcard Collection
Shenandoah County Library
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC)
115
Teacher and Students
Zepp (Va)
Sibert, Robert
Picture of teacher Robert Sibert with his students at the Zepp School.
Richard Vormbrock Collection
Shenandoah County Library
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Photograph
English
Neva Strosnider
Strosnider, Neva
Zepp (Va.)
Women-Virginia-Zepp
Shenandoah County Library
1975
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC)