Candid photograph of Joe Walters (seated), owner of Walters Restaurant, and Glen Spitzer (standing), owner and operator of Spitzer Hardware, a store directly across the street from the restaurant, taken in February 1956.
Candid photograph of Paul Estep at Walters Restaurant taken in February 1956. Paul operated a shoe repair shop in Mt. Jackson at the time of this photograph.
Candid photograph of Lester Walker (foreground) and Mr. Price (background) reading newspapers at Walters Restaurant taken in February 1956. The front page of the Northern Virginia Daily newspaper is partially visible.
Photograph of Charlie Walker at Walters Restaurant taken in February 1956. Charlie was a regular around Mt. Jackson who did odd jobs and possibly lived in Pine Woods.
Damaged family photograph of Walter Calvin Wisman with his wife, Irene Dora (Saum) Wisman, seated in front, and their three grown children (l to r): James E. Wisman, Helen (Wisman) Logsdon, and Calvin S. Wisman, standing in back.
Born in born in Tunbridge Wells, England, on June 29, 1881, he came to the Fort Valley with a hiking group from the Washington DC area in the 1920s. Three years later, in 1923, he bought property and a…
Portrait photograph of Walter Stephenson Newman as a young man.
He is most remembered as having served as the 10th President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI), now called Virginia Tech, from 1947 until his retirement 15 years later, in…