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Color postcard with a picture of the US Army Remount Depot located near Front Royal Virginia.U.S. Remount Depot. Front Royal, Va.

Color postcard with a picture of the US Army Remount Depot located near Front Royal Virginia.

Postcard with a picture of the US Army Remount Depot located near Front Royal Virginia.

Color postcard with a picture of the US Army Remount Station located near Front Royal Virginia.

Color postcard with a picture of the US Army Remount Station located near Front Royal Virginia.

Color postcard with a picture of the US Army Remount Depot located near Front Royal Virginia.

Color postcard with a view of the U.S. Remount Depot located in Front Royal Virginia.

Postcard with a picture of Massanutten Academy's (now Massanutten Military Academy) Benchoff Hall under construction with description of the building's use.

The card is dated December 1 1955.

In 1940 the Massanutten Academy’s Yearbook noted this varsity swim team’s record was “enviable in the best inter-scholastic swimming circles.”

The school had dominated at eight swim meets throughout the mid-Atlantic and over fifty teams,…

Little was recorded about horse-back riding at Massanutten Academy in 1940. Apparently most of it was done at Camp Lupton, the academy’s recreation center and maneuver grounds along the Shenandoah River east of town.

In addition to camping…

Photograph showing James L. Cullen of Edinburg Virginia. Cullen served during the First World War. He lived from 1894-1957. During the conflict he was gassed and never truly recovered.

On April 13, 1945 Corporal Aiden Zirkle died on Okinawa. He was a member of Company E, Second Battalion, Seventh Regiment, First Marine Division. Reports indicate he succumbed to wounds obtained while leading his unit against an entrenched machine…

This letter was sent from J.S. Patterson to Samuel Spiggle on October 2, 1919. Both were members of the 80th Infantry Division during the First World War and this piece of correspondence discusses efforts to locate old comrades and their life after…

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Post 2447 in Edinburg Virginia. The post is located in the former Edinburg Hotel building.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing an honor guard at the entrance to the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Post 2447 in Edinburg Virginia.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing a group at the Massanutten Military Academy's military ball sometime in the 1950s. Pictured from left to right is Doug Gordon, Judy Minner, Barbara Benchoff daughter Guy Benchoff, commandant of MMA,…

Portrait photograph of Harold Lee Ritenour, of Woodstock, as a young man wearing his U.S. Marine Corps uniforms.

Harold Ritenour was born in Woodstock Virginia on March 25 1925. He served in World War Two with the U.S. Marine Corps. After the war…

Photograph showing a World War Two aircraft observation tower in Woodstock Virginia.

Fulton Bowers his U.S. Army uniform.

Fulton Bowers, nicknamed "Toad", was born in Toms Brook, Virginia, the son of Albert C. and Ida Pearl Bowers.

He served in the U.S. Army during the Second World War fighting in the North Africa and Italian…

Fulton "Toad" Bowers and an unidentified woman.

Fulton Bowers, nicknamed "Toad", was born in Toms Brook, Virginia, the son of Albert C. and Ida Pearl Bowers.

He served in the U.S. Army during the Second World War fighting in the North Africa…

Portrait photograph of an unidentified cadet from Massanutten Academy (now called Massanutten Military Academy) wearing his school's uniform.

Unidentified cadet from Massanutten Academy (now called Massanutten Military Academy, or MMA) is wearing his school's uniform, replete with cap and sword.

Heavily damaged portrait photograph of an unidentified cadet from Massanutten Academy (now Massanutten Military Academy or MMA) wearing his school's uniform.

Unidentified young cadet from Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) is wearing his school's uniform and saluting.

Unidentified man with glasses is posed in a U.S. Army uniform.
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