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Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing an aerial view of the Johns Manville Plant located between Woodstock and Edinburg Virginia shortly after its construction. Today the building is used as a warehouse.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing an aerial view of the Johns Manville Plant located between Woodstock and Edinburg Virginia shortly after its construction. Today the building is used as a warehouse.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing an aerial view of the Johns Manville Plant located between Woodstock and Edinburg Virginia shortly after its construction. Today the building is used as a warehouse.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing an aerial view of the Johns Manville Plant located between Woodstock and Edinburg Virginia shortly after its construction. Today the building is used as a warehouse.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing an aerial view of the Johns Manville Plant located between Woodstock and Edinburg Virginia shortly after its construction. Today the building is used as a warehouse.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing an aerial view of the Johns Manville Plant located between Woodstock and Edinburg Virginia shortly after its construction. Today the building is used as a warehouse.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing an aerial view of the Johns Manville Plant located between Woodstock and Edinburg Virginia shortly after its construction. Today the building is used as a warehouse.

Photograph showing the aircraft observation tower located in New Market Virginia. Such towers were built and staffed by local civil defense groups in order to warn of possible enemy attack and to monitor aircraft over the area. This image appeared in…

Photograph from the Shenandoah Herald newspaper showing Technical Sergeant Edwin C. Keys reading that newspaper while deployed to India during the Second World War. This photograph was part of an advertisement encouraging individuals to buy…

Photograph showing the aircraft observation tower located in Edinburg Virginia. Such towers were built and staffed by local civil defense groups in order to warn of possible enemy attack and to monitor aircraft over the area.

An image of Joseph Luther Burner of Maurertown Virginia. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on January 7, 1942 and was trained in Parris Island South Carolina.

On October 26 1942 he was deployed to the Pacific where he served in the…

A photograph showing Earl Dyer of Woodstock taken by Hugh Morrison of Woodstock.

Earl Franklin Dyer had enlisted in the US Army in May of 1945. A native of Woodstock, he was living in Mananas Virginia at the time because it was the closest High…

A photograph showing the Magruder House and property on North Main Street in Woodstock Virginia. In the 1960s the house was demolished and the land was redeveloped as the Woodstock Shopping Center.

Photograph showing the Woodstock High School Class of 1930. Pictured from left to right are:

First Row: Ione Beydler, Wilbur Lauck Newman, Edna Miller, Virginia Stickley, Jay Pence, Joycie Williams, Lisa Fleming, Robery Ramey, Romaine Foster.…

Photograph showing the Stickley-Boyer Building on the corner of Court and Main Street in the Town of Woodstock. This structure, and a large portion of this block, were destroyed by fire in 1900.

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.…

Photograph showing a class of students taught by Marguerite Artz at the Woodstock Elementary School. Pictures, from left to right, are:

Row 1: Leo Ryman, Tommy Morrison, Larry Wilkins, L.B. Shelton

Row 2: Larry Seal, Donnie Shrum, JoAnn Miller,…

Photograph showing John E. Bemis with his 1913 Model T touring car. He was arrested soon after buying this car for speeding in Woodstock. The officer, who was riding a bicycle, reported he was travelling 15 miles per hour. Bemis was at one time owner…

This photograph, which originally appeared in the Washington Post, shows a group of women during the Woodstock Bicentennial Celebration in 1952. The women are, from left to right, Mrs. Charles Wolverton Sibert, Mrs. Lyle Shelton, Mrs. Nelson Lynn,…

Undated photograph showing members of the Lantz Mill Band. They are, from left to right:

Row 1: Unknown order: Oscar Coffelt, Frank Fadeley, Sam Daleley, William Cook, Unidentified man.

Row 2: Jim Coffman, Will Windle, Charlie Cook, Luther…

Photograph of students at the Lebanon Church School sometime around 1910. Pictured are, from left to right:

Row 1: Ethel Beeler Heishman, Eula Beeler Walker, Mary Rhodes Himelright, Emily Funkhouser Miller, Lizzie Holtzman Hockman, Virginia…

On July 26th, 1918 local photographer Hugh Morrison took this photograph of local men preparing to basic training at Camp Humphries, now Fort Belvoir, in Fairfax County Virginia.

It was taken on the steps of the Woodstock Depot. It was from here…

A letter written to W.R. Merriam of the Liberty Iron Furnace Company threatening to destroy the "Dinky" railroad, which connected the furnace with Edinburg Virginia, unless James Sine and Thomas Foltz were fired.

Letter from Joseph M. Hines, a Toms Brook native who was then serving in the United States Marine Corps, to his parents Duval and Mary Hines in Toms Brook Virginia. The letter was sent from Camp Joseph H. Pendleton in California on October 17, 1943.

A picture of James E. McKenzie, US Army. It appeared in the Shenandoah Herald on September 7, 1950 when the paper announced he had been killed in action in Korea. On September 7, 1950 the Shenandoah Herald Private James E. McKenzie, 18, of Quicksburg…
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