Photograph showing "employees, and members of their families and friends, of the Shenandoah Publishing House and the Northern Virginia Daily" at a picnic at Elizabeth Furnace in Powell's Fort Valley (now Fort Valley Virginia).
Photograph showing the "Fort Brick Church" in Fort Valley Virginia. The image is undated. It is located in a photograph album that was maintained by Arlene Strickler.
This church and Trinty Church (pictured in the background) are currently home…
Drawing of Burner's Springs Resort, also known as Shenandoah Springs, in Fort Valley Virginia. The resort was constructed in "bowl-like hollow" that was surrounded by seven fountains. Six were within one acre of the resort but the seventh was piped…
Photograph of Mt. Zion Lutheran Church located in Fort Valley Virginia. The church was constructed in 1897 by a group of dissidents who left the St. David's Church Congregation. The two churches would reunite in 1965.
Picture of the St. Davids Lutheran Church in Fort Valley Virginia. The congregation was formed around 1816 when the Lutheran worshipers in Fort Valley established their own church. The building pictured was constructed in 1873 after the previous…
Photograph showing Eva Mae Boyer (Ritenour) and Ray Franklin Boyer of Fort Valley. The family account notes Ray was bare footed because he had contracted poison ivy and couldn't wear his shoes.
Photograph showing members of the Boyer family of Fort Valley Virginia. Pictured on the back row from left to right are:
-Sam Boyer who ran the Pelton Post Office
-Edith Boyer Burke
-Charlotte "Lottie" Munch Boyer. She married Sam Boyer after he…