Shenandoah County Library Archives

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Walter W. Paige

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Dublin Core

Title

Walter W. Paige

Subject

Paige, Walter W.

Description

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 1930's, he built four cabins on the steep hillside behind his home which he sold to people from the Washington, D.C. area for extra income during the Depression. These weekend getaways still stand today.

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

Undated

Contributor

Identified by Jeanette C. Ritenour who knew the subject and had seen the same image before. Information about the cabins came from Tracy McMahon who, with her husband, owned three of them for many years.
Additional information provided by Denise Lawrence.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Identifier

002826

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Glass Negatives

Citation

Morrison Studio, “Walter W. Paige,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 22, 2024, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/28390.

Comments

Denise Lawrence

Walter Paige was my husband's grandfather. Walter Paige was born in Tunbridge Wells England. Attached is his obituary. He came to the Fort Valley with a hiking group from the Washington DC area in the 1920s. He bought property and a house in the Fort Valley in 1923 and married Bessie Ritenour (a Fort Valley native) in 1924.

Walter's daughter Winona (Paige) Lawrence is my husband's mother. My husband is Alfred M. Lawrence III

Reply

Zach

Thanks for the information Denise, we appreciate being able to add to his story. 

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