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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…

A picture of Harold "Sparky" Sutphin. It appeared in the Shenandoah Herald when they reported he had been killed in action on November 9, 1950. He was 20 years old.

Harold had deployed to Korea as part of 38th Infantry Division which was…

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…

Letter from Joseph M. Hines, a Toms Brook native who was then serving in the United States Marine Corps, to his parents Duval and Mary Hines in Toms Brook Virginia. The letter was sent from Camp Joseph H. Pendleton in California on October 17, 1943.

A letter written to W.R. Merriam of the Liberty Iron Furnace Company threatening to destroy the "Dinky" railroad, which connected the furnace with Edinburg Virginia, unless James Sine and Thomas Foltz were fired.

Photograph of students at the Lebanon Church School sometime around 1910. Pictured are, from left to right:

Row 1: Ethel Beeler Heishman, Eula Beeler Walker, Mary Rhodes Himelright, Emily Funkhouser Miller, Lizzie Holtzman Hockman, Virginia…

Undated photograph showing members of the Lantz Mill Band. They are, from left to right:

Row 1: Unknown order: Oscar Coffelt, Frank Fadeley, Sam Daleley, William Cook, Unidentified man.

Row 2: Jim Coffman, Will Windle, Charlie Cook, Luther…

This photograph, which originally appeared in the Washington Post, shows a group of women during the Woodstock Bicentennial Celebration in 1952. The women are, from left to right, Mrs. Charles Wolverton Sibert, Mrs. Lyle Shelton, Mrs. Nelson Lynn,…

Photograph showing John E. Bemis with his 1913 Model T touring car. He was arrested soon after buying this car for speeding in Woodstock. The officer, who was riding a bicycle, reported he was travelling 15 miles per hour. Bemis was at one time owner…

Photograph showing a class of students taught by Marguerite Artz at the Woodstock Elementary School. Pictures, from left to right, are:

Row 1: Leo Ryman, Tommy Morrison, Larry Wilkins, L.B. Shelton

Row 2: Larry Seal, Donnie Shrum, JoAnn Miller,…

This photograph shows the Hamburg Cornet Band sometime around 1915. Pictured from left to right are:

Row 1: Rawley Newland, Albert Heishman, Beuford Hamman, John J. Myers, Vernon Vehrencamp, Will Stonner

Row 2: Will Painter, Tom Myers, W.L.…

Photograph showing the Stickley-Boyer Building on the corner of Court and Main Street in the Town of Woodstock. This structure, and a large portion of this block, were destroyed by fire in 1900.

A photograph showing the Magruder House and property on North Main Street in Woodstock Virginia. In the 1960s the house was demolished and the land was redeveloped as the Woodstock Shopping Center.

An image of Joseph Luther Burner of Maurertown Virginia. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on January 7, 1942 and was trained in Parris Island South Carolina.

On October 26 1942 he was deployed to the Pacific where he served in the…

Photograph showing the aircraft observation tower located in Edinburg Virginia. Such towers were built and staffed by local civil defense groups in order to warn of possible enemy attack and to monitor aircraft over the area.

Photograph from the Shenandoah Herald newspaper showing Technical Sergeant Edwin C. Keys reading that newspaper while deployed to India during the Second World War. This photograph was part of an advertisement encouraging individuals to buy…

Photograph showing the aircraft observation tower located in New Market Virginia. Such towers were built and staffed by local civil defense groups in order to warn of possible enemy attack and to monitor aircraft over the area. This image appeared in…

Photograph of Reformation Lutheran Church located in New Market Virginia. The picture was featured on a dedication program for the newly constructed church which was held on June 17, 1956.

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…

Undated photograph showing three women dressed as men and labeled "three sports"

Undated photograph showing the "K.E.Y. club house"

Undated photograph showing a house and labeled as "Berkeley Springs, W.Va."

Undated photograph showing a woman and three women dressed as men. Labeled "Nelle's lovers"

Photograph showing a group of women and two men with a wagon labeled "going to camp, August 26 1913"

Undated photograph labeled "Momie at the old well. "K.E.Y."
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