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Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing firefighters at the scene the March 8, 1947 fire at the Nelson Theater in Mt. Jackson Virginia. The fire engine in the front is from Toms Brook Fire Department.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing firefighters at the scene the March 8, 1947 fire at the Nelson Theater in Mt. Jackson Virginia. The fire engine in the front is from Toms Brook Fire Department.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing firefighters at the scene of the March 8, 1947 fire at the Nelson Theatre in Mt. Jackson Virginia. The fire engine in the front is from Toms Brook Fire Department.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the interior of the Nelson Theater in Mt. Jackson Virginia.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the interior of the Nelson Theater in Mt. Jackson Virginia.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the interior of the Nelson Theater in Mt. Jackson Virginia.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the Nelson Theater in Mt. Jackson Virginia.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the interior of the Nelson Theater in Mt. Jackson Virginia.

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the interior of the Nelson Theater in Mt. Jackson Virginia.

Interior view of the Nelson Theater located in Mount Jackson, Virginia.

The theater was built in 1937 by local businessman, Burgess Nelson, and was once the largest in the county. It closed in the 1960s.

Rows of seating are in the foreground…

Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the April 8, 1947 fire at the Nelson Theater in Mt. Jackson Virginia.

Photograph of the Nelson Oil Station and the Burgess Nelson house (also called the Shannon House), both located on the Valley Pike (U.S. Route 11) at the north end of Mt. Jackson.

Across the street, a part of the wall of the Our Soldiers Cemetery…

Photo of two separate portrait photographs of Nelson Borden as a young man in a white suit and black bow tie.

Photo of two separate portrait photographs.

The image on the left is of Nelson F. Miller and the one on the right is of his wife, Bernice G. (Miller) Miller.

The couple lived in the southern part of Shenandoah County. Nelson was a farmer and…

Photograph of Nellie "Peggy" Azalia Myers.

This photograph appeared in the 1925 Strasburg High School yearbook "Shenandoah." Nellie graduated from the high school that year.

Portrait of Nellie Koon Culbertson wearing a raincoat.

Portrait of Nellie Funk Grabill with bobbed hair and wearing pearls. She was the wife of Jack Grabill.

Photo of two separate portrait photographs of two different people.

On the left is Nellie Lantz Long from Edinburg. Her husband was Homer A. Long, Jr.

On the right is an unidentified person.

Photo of two separate portrait photographs of Nellie (Lantz) Long.

She was married to Homer A. Long, Jr. and lived in Edinburg.

Portrait photograph of Nellie M. (Houston) Rickard wearing her hair short and a string of faux pearls around her neck.

Nellie was born in Toms Brook, the daughter of Hallie Hagood and Nellie Grace (Rutz) Houston.

Her husband was Marwood…

Nellie (Borden) Wisman of Toms Brook is standing by one of her two daughters, probably Anna Elizabeth (Wisman) Rosenberger, who is perched on a studio column..

Anna later married William Rosenberger of Winchester.

Undated photograph showing a woman and three women dressed as men. Labeled "Nelle's lovers"

Nell Smith pictured as a young girl wearing a dress and bow in her hair.

She was the daughter of Park and Roulette (Clem) Smith.

The name, "Nell Smith", is written on the glass plate.
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