Shenandoah County Library Archives

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Portrait photograph of Harold Lee Ritenour, of Woodstock, as a young man wearing his U.S. Marine Corps uniforms.

Harold Ritenour was born in Woodstock Virginia on March 25 1925. He served in World War Two with the U.S. Marine Corps. After the war…

Miniature photograph of Hattie Fravel. The image is dated on the reverse "January 3, 1898."

Hattie was a resident of Woodstock Virginia.

1974 photograph of Hazel Woodville, a resident of Shenandoah County Virginia.

In 1891 the Shenandoah County School Board constructed this school near the intersection of what is now Headquarters and Cave Ridge Roads. It was named Headquarters School after the local community which featured a church, stores, and several…

Photograph showing four generations of the Heishman - Burner family of Shenandoah County Virginia.

Pictured, from left to right, are:

Joseph Heishman
John Calvin Heishman (son of Joseph)
John Burner (son of Anna Burner)
Anna "Annie"…

A vast majority of European immigrants who came to Shenandoah County had a strong German background. With them came the Lutheran faith and the strong desire to preserve their heritage.

The Henkel family of New Market built a printing business…

Broadside produced by Henkel & Company Printers advertising "Henkel's Eye-Water," a lotion designed to assist with eye inflammation.

The print company and product originated in New Market Virginia.

Photograph of high school class in New Market, Virginia.

Back Row, from left to right:
1: Paul Offman
2: --
3: --
4: Mary Horner (Linhoss)
5: --
6: --
7: --
8: --
9: Charles Horner

Front Row, left to right:
1: Gail Bushong
2:…

Color photograph of "Highway Post Office One" passing the Shenandoah County Courthouse in 1988.

The Highway Post Office was inaugurated in 1941 with a Washington DC to Harrisonburg VA route. In 1988, the Smithsonian and US Postal Service…

This photograph shows members of the Knights Pythias Hill Top Lodge number 143 in Strasburg Virginia. It was taken by an unidentified photographer on April 11 1908.

Almost nothing is known about this organization except that it was one of the…

Postcard with a drawing of a woman on a policeman's lap with the title "Holding down the Law in Woodstock Va."

Engineering drawing showing a hopper car. The drawings are part of a collection related to the Liberty Iron Furnace Company which operated a narrow railroad in the western portion of Shenandoah County.

Photograph showing sets of harnessed horses in a field somewhere in Shenandoah County.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing a group on the speakers platform at the groundbreaking for Shenandoah Memorial Hospital on November 13, 1949.

Photograph showing the Hotel Holtzman located in Woodstock Virginia.

The hotel's staff, several of which are African American, and numerous other individuals are also pictured.

This structure stood at the current site of the Shenandoah County…

Advertisement pamphlet produced by R.D. Newland promoting the demonstration of a "Hydraulic Cider Press and Apple Butter Boiller."

Based on included dates, the document was most likely printed in 1898. R.D. (Richard) Newland operated an Apple…

1974 photograph of Irene Marston, a resident of Shenandoah County Virginia.

Pictured here is Jacob C. Saylor (left) with his Army buddy Corporal Lippki. Both were machine gunners in the Korean War. The image appeared in the Shenandoah Herald.

Jacob C. Saylor was a New Market native that deployed to Korea on July 31st…

Patent application and drawing for an improvement to trusses issued to Jacob Cooke and John Stirckler of Strasburg Virginia.

A cabinet card photograph of Jacob Ryman. The photograph was produced by Leedham of Ellwood City, Pennsylvania.

Jacob Ryman was born September 10, 1877 in the St. Luke Community of Shenandoah County. On December 23, 1903 he married Rose Riffey…

Pledge to the vestry of "Jacob's Church" along Swover Creek in Shenandoah County.

At the time the church was a "Union Church" between what is now St. Jacob's Lutheran Church, which stands in the same area as Jacob's Church, and Christ Reformed…

A picture of James E. McKenzie, US Army. It appeared in the Shenandoah Herald on September 7, 1950 when the paper announced he had been killed in action in Korea. On September 7, 1950 the Shenandoah Herald Private James E. McKenzie, 18, of Quicksburg…
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