Shenandoah County Library Archives

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Postcard showing a view of the Town of New Market Virginia.

Postcard showing the town of New Market Virginia.

Postcard showing the Blue Ridge Motor Lodge located one mile north of New Market Virginia. The hotel boasted air conditioning and free TV. At the time the card was produced it was operated by Phil and Elsie Broeckel.

Postcard showing the Blue Ridge Motor Lodge located one mile north of New Market Virginia. Owned at the time the card was produced by the Broeckel Brothers.

Postcard showing a view of the Valley Turnpike and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Taken from an area near New Market Virginia.

Postcard showing an iron bridge crossing the North Fork of the Shenandoah River.

The bridge was located on what is now called New Market Depot Road which connected the town of New Market Virginia to the New Market Depot on the nearby rail line.…

Photograph of two buildings being constructed at the Endless Caverns resort in New Market, Virginia.

Gas pumps have been installed and the building on the left has a covered porch.

Photograph of two buildings being constructed at the Endless Caverns resort in New Market, Virginia.

Various pieces of construction equipment are seen in the yard between the two stone buildings.

Photograph of the Bushong Farm located in the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park north of New Market, Virginia. The Federal-styled home was built in 1825 to accommodate Jacob Bushong and Sarah Strickler's growing family.

The 1864…

Postcard showing the Bushong house located on the New Market Battlefield.

Postcard showing the Bushong House located on what is now the New Market Battlefield. The postcard is in color and was produced in 1906 by Henkel & Co., printers in New Market Virginia.

Photograph showing a group of black face entertainers. The photograph is labeled "Cake Walk October 13th 1899 Benefit New Market Fire Co."

The Cake Walk was a popular minstrel performance at the time that ridiculed an African American dance of the…

Postcard showing the Camping Grounds at Endless Caverns near New Market Virginia

Postcard showing the Cedar Grove Cottage Camp located between Mt. Jackson and New Market Virginia on Route 11.

Postcard showing the Cedar Grove Cottage Camp located three miles north of New Market Virginia. The site featured a coffee shop and service station. It was operated by F.N. McCormick and advertised "Monkey Faced Owls."

Photograph showing the "Champs de Elyeese" ca. 1944. The reverse of the photograph is labeled by photographer.

Taken by Gordon Tidler of New Market Virginia who was then serving in the United States Army.

Tidler worked for Endless Caverns…

Postcard showing a monument that marks the spot where VMI Cadets participated at the Battle of New Market.

Photograph of a Government form issuing an Honorable Discharge to Staff Sergeant Charles C. Rice from Company "H" of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Infantry Division.

The date of separation on the form is 1945. The place was Fort George G. Meade,…

Before there was television, mass photography, and social media there were postcards.

Starting in the early 20th century they became popular forms of communication. Over the next few decades the became primarily associated with tourism as…

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing a Chinchilla on a globe. Photograph most likely was used to advertise the Chinchilla Farm near New Market Virginia.

This coin bank was produced in the mid-1920s by the Banker’s Thrift Corporation. The company was known for their production of novelty coin banks. They, and their subsidiaries, were acquired by the Banthrico Corporation in 1931. The new company,…

Postcard showing the Confederate Monument at the New Market battlefield

Group of unidentified students (and, possibly, a couple of teachers) from the Shenandoah Valley Academy in New Market.

Postcard showing depictions of the Colonial Hotel in New Market Virginia. The card shows three images, one of the hotel's exterior, one of its lobby, and one of the Gift and Art shop that operated inside.

The hotel was located along Congress…
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