Shenandoah County Library Archives

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Unidentified young girl wearing a winter coat and hat standing in the studio with her hands on her hips.

Photograph of a well with a bucket and rope/hand cranking system for retrieving water. A small roof overhead protects the water as well.

Color postcard photograph showing the Hamilton Motel.

The motel and adjacent restaurant are located on the southern edge of Woodstock Virginia.

As of 2020 it was still in operation as the Econo Lodge Woodstock.

Color postcard with a picture of the Hamilton Motel and adjoining restaurant located on US Route 11 south of Woodstock Virginia.

The postcard is undated.

Photograph of the school building in Hamburg, Virginia.

The building still stands. It was built in 1906 and damaged by fire in December 1938.

The school closed in 1940.

Photograph of the school building in Hamburg, Virginia.

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.…

A lone cow wearing a rope halter and standing in a yard.

The bottom of the image is damaged.

Postcard showing the Hall of Valor located at the New Market Battlefield. The site is operated by the Virginia Military Institute and is currently known as the Virginia Museum of the Civil War.

Photograph of a switchback on Orkney Grade, a road connecting Mt. Jackson, Virginia, with the communities of Orkney Springs and Basye, Virginia.

This photograph shows the area commonly known as the "Double S Curves," where two switchback curves…

Color postcard showing a picture of the H & H Motor Company located just south of Woodstock Virginia. The business was an Oldsmobile Dealer.

Photo of two separate portrait photographs of H.M. Hawkins, II, as a young man in a suit and tie.

A photograph similar to these was used in the 1964 Stonewall Jackson High School Yearbook (SJHS) titled, "Jacksonian Heritage".

In that yearbook,…

Photograph of H.H. Ramey's Apple orchard near Strasburg, Virginia. Signal Knob mountain is visible at the top right.

The photographer has written on the image, "Apple Blossom time", "H.H. Ramey's Orchard - Strasburg, Va".

Photograph of a typed page of a contract dated August 1938 between the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (with an office in Mt. Jackson) and H.D. Coffman of Hawkinstown, Virginia.

The contract lays out the terms to be agreed by both parties for…

Invoice issued to the "Corporation of Edinburg" by H.A. Whissen & Brothers, manufacturers of flour, feel, and meal.

The invoice is dated September 6, 1906 and is for $5.35 worth of items purchased between December 1905 and August 1906.

Portrait photograph H. Ross Baldwin, an instructor of science at Massanutten Military Academy (MMA).

Photograph of Gyneth (Kibler) Pence as a child.

Her father was Clarence Kibler, and she married William "Bill" G. Pence (1919-1982).

The name, "Lepin Kibler", or something like it, is written on the glass plate of this image of an unidentified…

Gyneth (Kibler) Pence pictured as a young girl.

Her father was Clarence Kibler, and she married William "Bill" G. Pence (1919-1982).

Oral history interview featuring Gwendolyn "Gwen" Tolliver Nickens conducted on February 5, 2016 for the Shenandoah County Library's Black History Month Program. In 1963 Gwen became the first African American student to attend the formally segregated…

Photo of two separate portrait photographs of Gwendolyn (Tolliver) Nickens as a young woman.

Gwendolyn made headlines in 1962 when she became the first African American student to integrate all-white Central High School in Woodstock. At the time,…

Photo of two separate portrait photographs of Gwendolyn (Tolliver) Nickens as a young woman.

Gwendolyn made headlines in 1962 when she became the first African American student to integrate all-white Central High School in Woodstock. At the time,…

Photo of two separate portrait photographs of Gwendolyn S. Tolliver as a young woman in her graduation cap and gown.

Gwendolyn made headlines in 1962 when she became the first African American student to integrate all-white Central High School in…
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