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Postcard with a picture of the Whissen Mill located between Edinburg and Woodstock Virginia located on Stoney Creek.

Postcard with a picture of the Whissen Mill located between Edinburg and Woodstock Virginia on Stoney Creek. Billed as the only mill not burnt in the valley during the Civil War.

Color postcard showing the Whissen Mill which was located just east of Edinburg Virginia along Stoney Creek.

It was one of two mills in the Town of Edinburg that survived the Civil War. Originally constructed in 1817 by Joseph Wissen, it burned…

Photograph of a marriage certificate attesting that Charles A. Whetzel and Mary I. Cave were married in New Market, Virginia, on March 10, 1942.

Rev. M.L. Huffman, a minister of the Church of the Brethren, officiated.

Color postcard showing the bridges that cross the Shenandoah River where its two forks converge near Riverton Virginia.

Postcard with a picture of the Shenandoah River at Narrow Passage between Woodstock and Edinburg Virginia. Includes a description of the area.

View across a wheat field that has been cut and put in piles awaiting further processing.

The picture shows the Clower farm located near Saumsville Virginia.

The house visible on the left still stands at 1292 Jadwyn Road and the house in the…

Scan of an undated photograph showing a western horse and gunfight show at the Shenandoah County Fair.

Postcard showing a view of the western portion of New Market Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley Academy.

Postcard with a picture of Strasburg Virginia's "west end."

The image was taken from the area of what is now North Street with St. Paul's Lutheran Church visible on the extreme left.

Photograph of Wesley Glenn Ritenour as a young man.

Wesley was from Fort Valley, the son of George Morgan Ritenour, a farmer, and Sarah Frances McInturff.

He married Isabel Inez Funk (1896-1978) when he was 21 years old.

As newlyweds,…

Store front view of Wender's Department Store Mt. Jackson Virginia. On the steps Mr. Harry Howard manager and with wife, daughter and store clerk.

Photograph of Wender's Department Store located on the corner of Court and Main Streets in Woodstock.

Wender's Department Store was a well-known fixture in the area until it closed in the early 1970's.

Formerly, the building was used to house…

Photograph of Wender's Clothing Store located at 103 S. Main Street in Woodstock, Virginia.

It was housed in the G.W. Koontz building.

Simon Z. Wender, the owner of Wender's, is visible on the left. The man on the right is unidentified.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the front of Wender's Department Store's Mt. Jackson location. A second store was located in Woodstock Virginia. Both were operated by Simon Wender.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the front of Wedner's Department Store' on Main Street in Mt. Jackson. That store was open from ca. 1920 until the late 1960s.

Wender's Department store had a second, larger location in Woodstock…

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the front of Wedner's Department Store's Mt. Jackson location. A second store was located in Woodstock Virginia. Both were operated by Simon Wender.

Photograph of the document certifying that Machinist's Mate Third class Welton Lee Webster was honorably discharged from the Navy in Bainbridge, Maryland, on February 18, 1946.

Unidentified toddler seated on a wicker chair and wearing a dress and a bonnet tied in a big bow under her chin.

Photograph of the birth registration issued for Weldon Ernest Hottle who was born on January 9, 1928, in Shenandoah County.

Parents were Russell Henry Hottle and Elizabeth Catherine Cook.

Photograph taken at night of unidentified well wishers ushering an unidentified new bride and groom into a car.

One man is holding a large flower arrangement that is waiting to be loaded into the back seat.

This photograph was taken on W.…

Portrait of an unidentified young couple in what appears to be their wedding apparel. The woman is wearing a long gown and a hair piece with a veil. The man is wearing a suit with a tie and vest.

A formal wedding portrait. The back of the photograph identify the bride as Lois Evans. The groom's name is first labeled as Lem Evans (of Edinburg, Virginia), but is then crossed out and is replaced with Bill Marks.
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