1921 photograph showing African American musicians and performers in costume and blackface for a production of “Virginia Minstrels” that benefited Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Woodstock Virginia.
Scan of a photograph strip with five images showing two different African American women. Both the women and the creator of the photographs are unknown.
Photograph of the aftermath of a destructive fire in Woodstock that destroyed many buildings in the downtown area. The gas lamp in the foreground is the on the edge of the courthouse property looking across the street. Sometimes the area burned is…
Portrait photograph of Agnes Molly (Lineweaver) Orndorff as a young woman.
Agnes married Newton Orndorff and together they had a son, Steve, and a daughter, Yvonne. Agnes' husband worked at the Northern Virginia Daily office in Strasburg from…
Unidentified agricultural building with a row of high windows along the top left and a door leading into it. Perhaps this portion of the building was used to house chickens.
Another door leads into the right side of the building.
On April 13, 1945 Corporal Aiden Zirkle died on Okinawa. He was a member of Company E, Second Battalion, Seventh Regiment, First Marine Division. Reports indicate he succumbed to wounds obtained while leading his unit against an entrenched machine…
In October of 1913 Frank J. Terrill brought his Curtis Biplane to the Shenandoah County Fairgrounds as part of the fair’s festivities.
This is the first recorded time an airplane passed through Shenandoah County and would have been most local’s…