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Quinten Burke
Scan of a photograph showing Quinten Burke. of Fort Valley Virginia.
Grinding Sausage
Scan of a photograph showing Ezra Boyer and Frank Boyer grinding susage using a car's axle to power the grinder. Sam Ritenour is shown in the back. All are from Fort Valley Virginia and most likely this photograph was taken on a "butchering day."
Dry Run
Scan of a photograph showing an aerial view of the Dry Run area in Fort Valley Virginia on April 15, 1936. This shows what is today the intersection of Fort Valley Road and Dry Run road.
Visible on the left corner of the intersection is the Union…
Visible on the left corner of the intersection is the Union…
Toms Brook High School Class of 1937
Scan of a photograph showing the Toms Brook High School Class of 1937, which graduated on June 8th of that year. On the back row, 6th from left is Mary Frances Orndorff who later became a Home Economics teacher. Also identified in the front row is…
Marcellus Boyer
Scan of a photograph showing Marcellus Boyer of Fort Valley Virginia.
Ella Boyer
Scan of a photograph showing Ella Boyer of Fort Valley Virginia in 1900.
Jack Boyer
Scan of a photograph showing Jack Boyer of Fort Valley Virginia.
Fort Valley Virginia
Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing an aerial view of Fort Valley Virginia.
Letter from S.D. Crude to J.W. Garner
Letter from S.D. Crude, resident engineer for the Virginia Department of Highways, to J.W. Garner of the Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors. The letter informs Garner and the board that the state department of transportation had received approval…
Letter, Franklin D. Roosevelt to A. Willis Robertson
Copy of a letter sent from Franklin D. Roosevelt to A (Absalom) Willis Robertson concerning the possible closure of Camp Roosevelt, the Civilian Conservation Corps Camp located near Edinburg Virginia. Robertson at the time was the Congressional…
Slate Hill School
Photograph showing the Slate Hill School in Fort Valley as it appeared in a 1939 insurance survey of Shenandoah County School. In the report the school is described as a "one story frame building with a tin roof, stone foundation, wood sheeting…
Shenandoah Publishing House and Northern Virginia Daily Employee Picnic
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).
The individuals in…
The individuals in…
Kaye Shelton
Kaye Shelton and her husband Les moved to Shenandoah County from Arlington County in 1973.
Prior to that, Kaye had worked for the Arlington County Police Department as their secretary for 27 years.
The couple found established retirement home…
Prior to that, Kaye had worked for the Arlington County Police Department as their secretary for 27 years.
The couple found established retirement home…
Fort Brick Church
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…
This church and Trinty Church (pictured in the background) are currently home…
Hazel Woodville
1974 photograph of Hazel Woodville, a resident of Shenandoah County Virginia.
George Alva Boyer and Family
Photograph of George Alva Boyer on the left. The other man and the child are also members of the Boyer family (but unidentified).
George Alva Boyer is most remembered as a Confederate Veteran of the Civil War. He was a native of Fort Valley, and…
George Alva Boyer is most remembered as a Confederate Veteran of the Civil War. He was a native of Fort Valley, and…
Fort Valley School Building
Picture of the school in Fort Valley, Virginia. It is no longer standing.
Fort Valley School
The Fort Valley School Building is no longer standing.
Perry Garnett Coverstone
Portrait of Perry Garnett Coverstone, of Fort Valley, as a young man.
Perry Garnett Coverstone was still single when he registered for the WWI draft. His emergency contact was listed as “Mrs. D.F. Frederick, Postmaster, Waterlick”. At that time,…
Perry Garnett Coverstone was still single when he registered for the WWI draft. His emergency contact was listed as “Mrs. D.F. Frederick, Postmaster, Waterlick”. At that time,…
Phillip and Molly Crisman
Phillip and Molly Crisman pictured on the front porch of their home on South Fort Valley Road. Large flowering bush is in the foreground.
Fay (Tamkin) Coates
Portrait of Fay (Tamkin) Coates from Fort Valley as a young woman and wearing a lovely white dress.
Kemper Clay Powell
Portrait of Kemper Clay Powell of Fort Valley, Virginia. He was married to Zola Munch in 1917.
Walter W. Paige
Portrait of Walter W. Paige. Born in born in Tunbridge Wells England on June 29, 1881, he married Bessie Ritenour and they lived in a white farmhouse in the northern end of Fort Valley. He died on March 15, 1968 and was buried in Dry Run.
In the…
In the…
Isabell Lichliter
Photograph of Isabell Frances Lichliter (later Shillingburg) of Fort Valley Virginia.