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Color postcard with a picture of the Hamilton Motel and adjoining restaurant located on US Route 11 south of Woodstock Virginia.

The postcard is undated.

Photograph of the school building in Hamburg, Virginia.

The building still stands. It was built in 1906 and damaged by fire in December 1938.

The school closed in 1940.

Photograph of the school building in Hamburg, Virginia.

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.…

A lone cow wearing a rope halter and standing in a yard.

The bottom of the image is damaged.

Postcard showing the Hall of Valor located at the New Market Battlefield. The site is operated by the Virginia Military Institute and is currently known as the Virginia Museum of the Civil War.

Photograph of a switchback on Orkney Grade, a road connecting Mount Jackson, Virginia, with the communities of Orkney Springs and Basye, Virginia.

This photograph shows the area commonly known as the "Double S Curves," where two switchback curves…

Color postcard showing a picture of the H & H Motor Company located just south of Woodstock Virginia. The business was an Oldsmobile Dealer.

Photo of two separate portrait photographs of H.M. Hawkins, II, as a young man in a suit and tie.

A photograph similar to these was used in the 1964 Stonewall Jackson High School Yearbook (SJHS) titled, "Jacksonian Heritage".

In that yearbook,…

Photograph of H.H. Ramey's Apple orchard near Strasburg, Virginia. Signal Knob mountain is visible at the top right.

The photographer has written on the image, "Apple Blossom time", "H.H. Ramey's Orchard - Strasburg, Va".

Photograph of a typed page of a contract dated August 1938 between the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (with an office in Mount Jackson) and H.D. Coffman of Hawkinstown, Virginia.

The contract lays out the terms to be agreed by both parties for…

Invoice issued to the "Corporation of Edinburg" by H.A. Whissen & Brothers, manufacturers of flour, feel, and meal.

The invoice is dated September 6, 1906 and is for $5.35 worth of items purchased between December 1905 and August 1906.

Portrait photograph H. Ross Baldwin, an instructor of science at Massanutten Military Academy (MMA).

Photograph of Gyneth (Kibler) Pence as a child.

Her father was Clarence Kibler, and she married William "Bill" G. Pence (1919-1982).

The name, "Lepin Kibler", or something like it, is written on the glass plate of this image.

Gyneth (Kibler) Pence pictured as a young girl.

Her father was Clarence Kibler, and she married William "Bill" G. Pence (1919-1982).

Oral history interview featuring Gwendolyn "Gwen" Tolliver Nickens conducted on February 5, 2016 for the Shenandoah County Library's Black History Month Program. In 1963 Gwen became the first African American student to attend the formally segregated…

Photo of two separate portrait photographs of Gwendolyn (Tolliver) Nickens as a young woman.

Gwendolyn made headlines in 1962 when she became the first African American student to integrate all-white Central High School in Woodstock. At the time,…

Photo of two separate portrait photographs of Gwendolyn (Tolliver) Nickens as a young woman.

Gwendolyn made headlines in 1962 when she became the first African American student to integrate all-white Central High School in Woodstock. At the time,…

Photo of two separate portrait photographs of Gwendolyn S. Tolliver as a young woman in her graduation cap and gown.

Gwendolyn made headlines in 1962 when she became the first African American student to integrate all-white Central High School in…

Photo of two separate portrait photographs of Gwendolyn S. Tolliver as a young woman in her graduation cap and gown.

Gwendolyn made headlines in 1962 when she became the first African American student to integrate all-white Central High School in…

Photographic postcard labeled "Guy Wolverton Saumsville Va." The card is undated.

The subject is most likely Guy Spiker Wolverton, born June 9 1896 and died August 23 1984. He was married to Bertha Link and they had two daughters, Betty and…

Portrait photograph of Guy Spiker Wolverton as a young man wearing a suit and tie with a starched collar.

Guy was the son of George W. (1868-1950) and Annie May (Spiker) (1870-1929) Wolverton.

He married Bertha Arbella (Link) (1900-1971)…

Photograph of Guy Lawrence Wellard (left) and Charles Glenn Wellard (right) posed togeether as young children.

These were the two oldest children born to Jacob Lawrence and Annie Geneva (Hepner) Wellard.

They grew up near Forrestville.

The…

Portrait photograph of Guy Didawick as a young man wearing his U.S. Army uniform.

He attended Woodstock High School and Massanutten Military Academy (MMA). Next, he served in the Army National Guard and later, joined the U.S. Marines.

Photo of a framed portrait photograph of Guy Didawick in his U.S. Army uniform.

He served in the U.S. Army National Guard before joining the U.S. Marines.
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