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View looking down a hill and toward mountains in the distance. Rows of planted trees are visible on the left.

View looking across the Shenandoah Valley towards mountains.

Trees in the foreground are possibly part of a fruit tree orchard.

Damaged image showing a view of the area in western Shenandoah County known as the Happy Valley/Basye community.

Trinity/Powder Springs United Church of Christ and Powder Springs School are visible on a hill close to the center of the photograph…

Photograph showing farm, barn, and view of the Massanutten Mountain east of Maurertown Virginia.

The barn pictured on the right still stands at 989 Black Bear Road, Maurertown.

View of mountains with an agricultural field in the foreground.

The photograph was taken near the Ford and Cooley Dairy, located on what became Chapman Landing Road between Woodstock and Edinburg, Virginia.

This photograph looks east from a…

View looking across wide expanse of fields and trees. The roof of a house is visible on the lower right.

Photo of a photograph of a railroad trestle on what is commonly called the "Dinky" Railroad which connected Edinburg Virginia to Liberty Iron Furnace in western Shenandoah County.

This is known as the Vann Trestle and it stood just west of the…

Photograph of a vintage car with extensive damage to its front end, particularly on the driver's side. Perhaps, this was the result of an accident.

Velma V. (Whitmer) Shipp shown seated in a chair with one elbow on its arm and wearing a polk-dotted dress with a bow on the front.

Velma was born in Jerome, the daughter of Jess Howard (1906-1956) and Hannah Margaret (Barbe) (1905-1990)…

Velma Vinnie (Whitmer) Shipp as a young woman seated on a bench.

Velma was born in Jerome, the daughter of Jess Howard (1906-1956) and Hannah Margaret (Barbe) (1905-1990) Whitmer.

She married Garrett Lee Shipp (1920-1982) in 1950. At that time,…

Photograph of Velma (Whitmer) Shipp (left) seated beside her sister-in-law, Emily (Shipp) Dinges (right).

Portrait photograph. of Vera Gochenour wearing a blouse with ruffles down the front of it.

Vera was the daughter of Ben and Georgia (Stultz) Gochenour. She grew up west of Woodstock.

The name, "Vera Gochenour", is written on the glass plate.

Portrait photograph of Vergie T. (Sheffler) Crabill with hair pinned up and her hands in her lap.

Vergie was the daughter of J.B. and Ann R. Sheffler. Her father was born in Pennsylvania and her mother in Maryland.

In 1880, she appeared as a…

Photo of two separate photographs of the Swartz family.

Pictured are (l to r):
Seated: John Vernon Swartz, Sr. and his wife, H. Faye (Drummonds) Swartz

Standing: Paul Wayne Swartz and his brother, John Vernon Swartz, Jr.

J. Vernon Swartz…

Portrait photograph of Vernon Lee Dellinger, remembered locally as having owned and operated funeral homes in both Woodstock and Mount Jackson.

He was born in Hamburg to John Frank Dellinger (1858-1919) and Minnie Lee (Grim) (1864-1930) Dellinger.…

Photograph of the document certifying that Fireman Second Class Vernon Russell King was honorably discharged from the Navy in Bainbridge, Maryland, on May 12, 1946.

Photo of two separate portrait photographs of Vernon W. Heishman in a suit and tie.

Born in Mount Jackson, he was the son of Clyde Washington and Sadie Elizabeth (Dellinger) Heishman.

He married Dorothy Ann Newland in 1959. She was a school…

Vesper Hall is located near Strasburg on Route 55, very close to the I-81 interchange and across the road from the old Capon Road Depot.

This stately home was built circa 1860 by Jacob Pifer and, by 1885, was used as a hotel. William Rupp, a…

Photo of a photograph of the Veterans Administration Headquarters building located at 810 Vermont Avenue, in Washington, D.C.

This glass plate negative was stored in a box labeled "Strasburg".

Unidentified boy is holding a certificate of some kind with mostly unidentified adult men and women standing behind him.

The certificate says, "Veterans of Foreign Wars" (VFW) at the top. The rest is unreadable.

The man standing 2nd from the…

Photo of two separate portrait photographs of Vicky Rae (Ryman) Baker as a young woman with glasses and shoulder-length hair.

Her parents were Joseph Franklin and Lizzie Frances (Proffitt) Ryman.

She lived in Quicksburg when she married Ray…

Photo of two separate portrait photographs of Vicky Maloney as a young woman with short, styled hair and wearing a photographer's drape.

A photograph similar to these was used in the 1964 Stonewall Jackson High School Yearbook (SJHS) titled,…

Photograph of an unidentified paved road as it crosses railroad tracks.

Beyond both, only fields, bare trees, fences, and a couple of telephone poles are visible.

View of the village of St. Luke (west of Woodstock) from across a field of cut wheat.

The home place of W.B. Foltz is visible in the back left.

View of the village of St. Luke (west of Woodstock) from across a field of cut wheat.

A store and other buildings are visible.
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