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Agriculture

Postcard showing the shipping and loading of melons from Everets. Willie Saunders’ house is in the background. c1914
Mary S. Latimer photo

Boats loaded with melons at Everets to ship down Everets Creek/Western Branch of the Nansemond River - c1914
J.J. Kirk's warehouse is on the left of the boats. The warehouse was used for cotton seeds beginning in 1924. The picture was taken from the bridge. The Ocean Star was captained by John Martin of Eclipse. The Bertha May was another boat owned by Capt. John Martin, which loaded at Everets. The Eva W. was owned and operated by Eddie Wagner. The Mary Ann, sharp at both ends, was owned and operated by Ralph Saunders. The Mary Ann operated from about 1914 to 1925.
Kirk family photo

Dailey Family of Sandy Bottom in cart c.1919
Lona D. McKinley photo

Arthur Joyner with his bountiful crop of potatoes grown in Chuckatuck!
Bee Norris photo

Cedarbrook Farm - Chuckatuck
Millard Winslow photo

Earnest Winslow, Millard Winslow’s dad, in the potato field on Cedar Brook farm (a truck farm). c.1947
Millard Winslow photo

Ann, D ? , Bertha and Rosa Towns harvesting potatoes on Cedar Brook farm across from St. John’s Church c.1947
Millard Winslow photo

Men and women bagging potatoes on Cedar Brook farm (a truck farm) across from St. John’s Church c1947
Millard Winslow photo

Mathew Towns, Ed Towns and Earnest Lee Towns harvesting potatoes on Cedar Brook farm - c1947
Millard Winslow photo

H. C. Hall tokens given for work on the Anchorage farm; exchangeable at local stores for food, etc. Cherry Grove area
Hall/Duff photo

Plowing peanuts near Chuckatuck

Peanut picker

Jesse Oliver plowing with a mule near Longview - 1943
Oliver family photo

Minton farm at Everets. Notice the hip-on-hip type barn and the corn crib. Schram family was living in the house at that time. c1950
Kirk family photo

Vernon, Jesse and Norman Oliver at Longview with watermelons - August 1, 1960
Oliver family photo

Meadowbrook Farm
Bill Saunders photo

Article about Johnny Barlow of Isle of Wight County, near Longview, raising larger hogs.
Millard Winslow

Part of article about Johnny Winslow raising hogs
Millard Winslow article

Farm workers at a peanut picker near Chuckatuck.
Thelma Glover/Clarice Whitfield photo

Feeding the peanut picker with shocked peanuts near Oakland
Thelma Glover/Clarice Whitfield photo

Bringing shocks of peanuts to the peanut picker near Chuckatuck
Thelma Glover/Clarice Whitfield photo

Shocking peanuts near Chuckatuck
Thelma Glover/Clarice Whitfield photo

Bud Towns - “Boss” - valued employee on Cedar Brook farm, going for milk
Winslow family photo

Willie Lee Towns with hogs going to market from Cedar Brook Farm
Winslow family photo

Hog killing on Cedar Brook Farm c.1972
Dean Goodman, Lewis Winslow, Win Winslow, Elizabeth Winslow, Windy Powell
Winslow family photo

Hog killing on Cedar Brook farm c.1972
Don Goodman, Lewis Allen
Winslow family photo

Preparing for hog killing on Haas farm
Lewis Winslow, Millard Winslow, Lewis Allen, Capt. Dick Doughty
Winslow family photo

Hog killing on Cedar Brook farm
Bill Saunders, Millard Winslow, Bud Townes, Allen Powell, Johnny Winslow
Winslow family photo

Marvin Winslow with children Elizabeth and Chip Winslow
Hog killing on Cedar Brook Farm c.1972
Winslow family photo

Hog killing on Cedar Brook Farm -
Bud Towns and Louis Allen c.1972
Winslow family photo

Hog killing on Cedar Brook Farm c.1972
Cutting up hogs - Millard Winslow, Marvin Winslow, Bud Townes
Winslow family photo

Aleck Winslow (red hat), Lewis Allen (hat), Buddy Bowen at hog killing on Cedar Brook Farm c.1972
Winslow family photo

Hog killing on Cedar Brook Farm c.1972
Capt. Dick Doughty, dragline operator, and David Frohman
Winslow family photo

Chip Winslow and hog heads - c.1975
Winslow Family photo

Cleaning pigs’ feet - Lewis, Preston and Marvin Winslow
1970s Cedar Brook Farm
Winslow family photo

Making sausage in Nina Winslow’s kitchen - c1975
Millard Winslow in foreground; Chip, Elizabeth and Emily, Johnny Winslow, Billy Kessinger, Pleasant W,
Winslow family photo

A lot of sausage!
Millard Winslow photo

Nina Winslow stuffing sausage with machine - c1975
Ella Mae, Emily, Sue, Nina Winslow and Russell Powell
Millard Winslow photo




John Kelly, Johnny Winslow and Kent Gwaltney selling melons in front of Pitt house in Chuckatuck - 1970
Norfolk Virginian Pilot photo


Cecil Rhodes and others - hog killing on Norris farm
Bee Norris photo



Confiscated liquor still

Bill Saunders preparing to plow on Meadowbrook Farm in Chuckatuck.

Cows at Butts Farm near Pembroke
Later Pickens and Creekmore farm near Pembroke
Bill Saunders photo

Farm house on Butts farm. Later Pickens then Creekmore farm
Bill Saunders photo

Butts farm near Pembroke. Later Pickins farm
Bill Saunders photo

Building on Butts farm. Later Pickins- - Creekmore farm.
Bill Saunders’ photo

Butts Farm near Pembroke
Bill Saunders photo

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Business and Commerce

J.T.Peck’s Cheap Store before 1900
Later known as Gwaltney’s Store
Mary S. Latimer photo

Capt. Richard C. Gilliam’s boat Edvina at Packet Wharf in Chuckatuck
Gilliam family photo

C.B. Godwin Store and Post Office c1895
Later Johnson’s Store
Angus I. Hines collection


1930 - N. H. Byrd’s station and store - located on the left beyond Chuckatuck ice plant. Later relocated across from Chuckatuck High School
Left to right:
1st - Bill Harvell
3rd - Grady Norfleet
4th - left of gas pump - “Boo” Giles
5th - N. H. Byrd with son Charlie in front
6th - Mayo Latimer
Byrd family photo

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B.W. Godwin’s Ice Plant in Chuckatuck 1940
Emma S. Kelly photo

B.W. Godwin business blotter
Found by Lynn Rose

1936 - Lease of Godwin sawmill to W.G. Saunders, Jr. from B. W. Godwin
Saunders family photo

Mathew Crumpler in front of Gwaltney’s Store

Juanita Kelly in John Kelly’s truck - 1949
Kelly family photo

P.D. Howell at Saunders Supply treatment plant
Howell family photo

Article listing sale of Saunders Supply Co. from W.G. Saunders, Jr. to Al Saunders and P.D. Howell, Jr.

P.D. Howell, Jr. and Al Saunders at mill
Howell family photo

Chuckatuck ice plant - 1981
L. Rose photo

Chuckatuck ice plant and grist mill 1981
Lynn Rose photo

Newspaper clippings of Chuckatuck

Johnson’s Store after fire in 1970

Chuckatuck marker with Pitt/Johnson/Doyle Store in the background
Joe Barlow photo

Johnsons’ store after fire in Jan. 1970
Johnson family photo

Virginian Pilot photo from May 1961 showing old and new post office in Chuckatuck
Lynn Rose collection

Intersection of Rt. 10 and Rt. 125 showing Spady’s store and garage.

Pitt/Doyle’s store - 1975
L. Rose collection

Doyle’s/Johnson’s store - June 1968
L. Rose collection

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W.C. Moore’s Store - c1927
Left to right - Rosser Chapman, W.C. Moore, Alex Moore, Marietta Moore, Florence Moore, Dorothy Chapman, Martha Moore
Moore family photo

F.A. Spady’s Store and Garage
Hamblin’s Studio
Angus Hines-Southern Oil collection

N.H. Byrd’s Store - located across from CHS c1935
l-r Bill Harvell, Pete Lowe, Joe Byrd, N.H. Byrd
Jack Byrd photo

Duck Taylor’s Store - Rt. 10, Oakland c1999
Polkey Woolford photo

Barbee Gilliam in store 1951
Ann G. Lovell photo

Barbee Gilliam’s Store at Wills Corner 1951
Hamblin’s Studio - Angus Hines Southern Oil collection

Ray Gilliam’s store c1927 Wills Corner
Hamblin’s Studio, Angus Hines-Southern Oil collection

Bennie Oliver at Longview; Oliver’s store c1936
Oliver family photo

J. W. Horne in front of Horne’s store with Oliver’s store in the background
Shirley Wilson photo

Gayle’s Store and Garage-Reids Ferry
Hamblin’s Studio-AngusHines-Southern Oil collection

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Nansemond River Brick Tile token
Vernon Gayle

Nansemond River Brick Tile token - reverse side
Vernon Gayle collection

Oliver’s Service Station and Store - Route 10
Frank Oliver photo

Everets store operated by Kirk-Turner-Moore-Martin c1924; location of 1st post office
Kirk family collection

Kirk Lumber Company fleet with the sawmill in the background - 1925/26
Trucks are parked on the then-current roadway. Steam is coming from the sawmill.
The three-story building in the background was the cotton gin.
KLC photo

Martin’s Store at Everets c1961
Location of an early post office
Saunders/Russell House in the background

“Big Boy” Doughty loading Kirk Lumber Company log truck with Cat 22 - 1938
Kirk Lumber Company photo

Isaac “Ike” Blough, sawyer at Kirk Lumber Company - 1987
Lynn Rose photo

Grand opening of the new location of Saunders Supply Co. - 1982
Left to right - F.H. Christopher, former principal of Chuckatuck High School, Al Saunders, Mayor George Barnett, Mills E. Godwin, Jr., P. D. Howell, Jr.
Saunders family photo

Opening of Saunders Supply in former Chuckatuck High School - 1982
M. Winslow clipping

Bobby and Barbara Jones, Village Drugs c1982
Bee Norris photo

Village Drugs at Christmas
Jones family photo

Village Drugs at Christmas
Jones family photo

Village Drugs at Christmas
Jones family photo

Village Drugs at Christmas
Jones family photo

Village Drugs at Christmas
Jones family photo

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Village Drugs at Christmas

Chris, Bobby and Brian Jones
Jones family photo

Village Drugs pharmacy and gift shop, office of Dr. Philip Thomas and Kitty’s Beauty Salon - Chuckatuck c 1985
Lynn Rose photo

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Newspaper article on Village Drugs closing
Jones family article

Spunk Gwaltney in front of Gwaltney’s Store 1996
L. Rose photo

Gwaltney’s Store

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Gwaltney’s Store - Cornhole games for sale

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Lafayette Gwaltney in early 1970s
Gwaltney family photo

Gwaltney’s Store - 7-14-2007

Gwaltney’s Store Chuckatuck 10-12-2008

Lafayette Gwaltney, Frank Buppert and Kent Gwaltney playing checkers in Gwaltney’s Store, Chuckatuck VA 6-27-2009
Gwaltney family photo

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Dailey Store - Sandy Bottom
Dailey family photo

Dailey Store - Sandy Bottom
Dailey family photo

Dailey family home - Sandy Bottom
Dailey family photo

Dailey Store - Sandy Bottom
Dailey family photo

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Dailey’s Store - Sandy Bottom
Dailey family photo

Dailey’s Store - Sandy Bottom
Dailey family photo

Jean M. Dailey’s War Ration Book WWII
Jean Dailey Chandler photo

Dailey’s Store Sandy Bottom c1960s
Dailey family photo

James Lee Diggs in his Diamond Way Service Station - Sandy Bottom c1964
Mary D. Brown photo

Dailey’s Store - 1948
Dailey family photo

Sam Chapman’s store c1930
Bradshaw family photo

Diamond Way Service Station, Sandy Bottom c1955
Mary Diggs Brown photo

W. C. Moore, store owner in Chuckatuck

Milk bottle cap from Oliver Newman’s farm c1940
Connie N. Taylor photo

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W.C. Moore Store ledger page listing S customers

W. C. Moore Store Ledger page with 1914-1915 entries
Moore family ledger

W. C. Moore Store ledger page. “A” customers
Moore family

W.C. Moore Store Ledger page
Moore family

WC Moore Store Ledger

WC Moore Store Ledger

WC Moore Store Ledger page — listing of D customers

WC Moore Store Ledger

WC Moore Store Ledger page listing E customers
Moore family

WC Moore Store Ledger, list of F customers

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WC Moore Store Ledger

W.C. Moore store ledger page

WC Moore Store Ledger

WC Moore Store Ledger

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WC Moore Store Ledger

W C Moore Store ledger - list of “N” customers
Moore family

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Listing of “T” customers in W. C. Moore store ledger
Moore family

WC Moore Store Ledger

“V” listing of customers in W.C. Moore Store Ledger
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WC Moore Store Ledger

“W’ listing of customers from W. C. Moore Store ledger
Moore family

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WC Moore Store Ledger

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Page from Gwaltney Store ledger Jan. 1, 1942
Gwaltney family

Page from Gwaltney Store ledger on Dec. 6, 1941
12/6/1941 sales
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Village Photo Galleries
Clubs & Organizations Photo Gallery

BSA Troop 305 - Oakland/Chuckatuck
Clarice Whitfield photo

BSA - Troop 305 c1969
Clarice Whitfield photo

Richard Whitfield, Jr. c 1950
Clarice Whitfield photo

Felton Whitfield, Eagle Scout, 197
Clarice Whitfield photo
Suffolk News Herald article

Felton Whitfield - 1974 - First Area Black to Get Eagle Scout Award
Clarice Whitfield article

Felton Whitfield -first African American eagle scout
Clarice Whitfield-photo

Charter for Boy Scout Troop 305 in Chuckatuck/Oakland
Little Bethel Baptist Church
Clarice Whitfield

Boy Scout Troop 305 pictures
Clarice Whitfield

History of Boy Scout Troop 59 written by Roosevelt Jones
Roosevelt Jones

Aspara Chapter of the Eastern Star
Roosevelt Jones

Eastern Star - Aspara Chapter 43, Chuckatuck
Roosevelt Jones

History of Aspara Chapter #43 of the Eastern Star
Roosevelt Jones

W. Kasper, Edward and Robert Wagner - Masons with Chuckatuck Masonic Lodge c1950
Celia Wagner Coughlin photo

Masonic Lodge and Community Hall (earlier used for military school) Chuckatuck c1908
J.B. Dunn photo

Masonic Lodge #77 - 1958
Shows houses on Crumpler Lane in the background

Stokes, Margaret, Bruce and John Kirk at Bruce’s Eagle Ceremony - 1968
Lynn Rose photo

Leroy Howell - Chuckatuck Boy Scout - 1942
Leroy Howell photo

Leroy Howell at Boy Scout cabin on Gray farm then owned by J.R. Kirk
Leroy Howell photo

Joe Byrd at Boy Scout cabin on the Gray farm
Leroy Howell photo

1968 BSA Court of Honor

1961 Chuckatuck Boy Scouts Hold Court of Honor article
L. Rose

1963 Glasscock to Speak on Scout Sunday
Margaret G. Kirk

1978 Chuckatuck cub scout pack holds annual meeting

1978 Chuckatuck Scouts display their projects - Brian Begley and Eddie Stevenson

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1987 Eagle Scout Ceremony, Troop 25 Chuckatuck
Front row - Rusty Rose, John Rose, Brent Gayle, Keith Pope
Rear - Francis Clements, Scout Master, Vernon Gayle, Asst. Scoutmaster, , Leroy Howell

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Chuckatuck Ruritan Club - ladies night - 1970

Chuckatuck Ruritan Club program - Ladies Night - 1970

Chuckatuck Ruritan Club members - John, Drexel, Robbie and Dwight Bradshaw - 3 generations
Bradshaw family photo

Chuckatuck Ruritan Club charter members - 1955
Norfolk Virginian Pilot

Chuckatuck Ruritan Club members at the national convention at Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach - 19
P.D. Howell, Jr., Rosser Chapman, Al Saunders, Al Glasscock, Grady Norfleet
Trudy Norfleet photo

Chuckatuck Ruritan Club oyster roast 1981; W. G. Saunders, Jr. farm

Chuckatuck Ruritan Club oyster roast 1981; W. G. Saunders Jr. farm - Charles Rose on left, Jack Knight on right

Ruritan Club oyster roast - 1981 on the Saunders farm

Chuckatuck Ruritan Club program - 1947

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GCHF Mini-museum in Gwaltney’s Store - 2018

GCHF Mini-museum in Gwaltney’s Store 2018

GCHF Mini-museum in Gwaltney’s Store 2018

GCHF Mini-museum in Gwaltney’s Store - 2018

GCHF Mini-museum in Gwaltney’s Store - 2018

GCHF Mini-museum in Gwaltney’s Store - 2018

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GCHF Mini-museum in Gwaltney’s Store - 2018
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GCHF Mini-museum in Gwaltney’s Store

GCHF Mini-museum in Gwaltney’s Store - 2018

GCHF Mini-museum in Gwaltney’s Store -2018

GCHF Mini-museum in Gwaltney’s Store - 2018

First National Night Out in Chuckatuck - 2010 - Sponsored by Oakland, Chuckatuck, Sandy Bottom Civic Leagues -
President Roosevelt Jones, N. Wiggins, Robert Delk
L. Rose photo

National Night Out 2010 - Sponsored by Oakland, Chuckatuck, Sandy Bottom Civic Leagues
L. Rose photo

National Night Out 2010 - Sponsored by Oakland, Chuckatuck, Sandy Bottom Civic Leagues
L. Rose photo

Roosevelt Jones 8-20-10 National Night Out in Chuckatuck

American Legion award -
Morris Norris on right
Bee Norris photo

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Village Garden Club members - Barbara Jones, Betty Glasscock, Charlotte Scott - 19
Bea Norris photo, Suffolk News-Herald

Ladies including Edna Blough, third from left, promoting bloodmobile.
Bee Norris photo

Harvest Festival III- Mildred Jordan, Joanie Baker and Margaret Barlow
Bee Norris photo

Reids Ferry Club - Sara Lockwood, Edmae Zwickie, Dot St. Clair, Georgie Lee Gayle, Maude Rountree, Marguerite Butler, Marilyn Bradshaw
Bee Norris photo

Mrs. E. N. Woodward of Chuckatuck Home Demonstration CLub Nov. 1961
Suffolk News Herald

Sketch of Junto Woman’s Club’s first meeting place
on Holiday Point Farm - Art work by Pat Bohon

Mrs. Dorothy Bradshaw, Mrs. McBobbie, guest speaker, Mrs. Betty Pretlow, Junto Woman’s Club

Junto Woman’s Club members
Teddy Lacey, Bertha McClanahan, Elizabeth Saunders, Mildred Knight, Dorothy Davis

Junto women or Wesley Chapel women looking over craft work for show -
Ellen Glasscock, Betty Glasscock, Laura Woodward
Bee Norris photo

Ellen Glasscock and Polly Brown

Ellen Glasscock showing quilt she made

Junto Woman’s Club members with winning entries
Front row - Jean Cox
Second row - Bertha McClanahan, Alease Hazelwood, Mae Shaffer,

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Woman’s Book Club minutes of first meeting - February 1926

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Norfolk Virginian Pilot article on forming Junto Woman’s Club,
Feb. 1927

Junto Woman’s Club - Teddie Lacey and Jackie Courtney
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Chuckatuck Volunteer Fire Department Photo Gallery





John Kelly passing fire chief position to Al Saunders




Ray Howell, Fireman of the Year 1982, with son, Richard.
Bee Norris photo

Last voting day at old CVFD station on Route 10 before moving to new station on Kings Highway.
L. Rose photo

1979 Suffolk News Herald picture and article - dedication of 25th CVFD anniversary book by Emma Spady Kelly in honor of Bill Harvell- Emma Spady, Bill Harvell, John Kelly
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Ronnie Kelly receiving the Fireman of the Year award from his father, John Kelly - February 1984
L. Rose photo

Vickie, Barbara, Chris, Bobby and Brian Jones all helping at CVFD fish fry



Brenda Wright, Lynn Rose, Aleck Winslow and Al Saunders frying hush puppies at a CVFD fish fry - 1976
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Aleck Winslow receiving CVFD Fireman of the Year award from Vernon Gayle - 2/2001
L. Rose photo

CVFD Chief Jerry Saunders at dedication of new CVFD firehouse - May 1997
Lynn Rose photo




CVFD extinguishing fire in teepee at Nansemond Indian festival - August 1993
L. Rose photo

Bennett Howell, Aleck Winslow and Al Saunders - selling tickets at June 1997 CVFD fish fry
Lynn Rose photo

Floyd Harrell - CVFD member
Vernon Gayle photo

John (CVFD fireman), Peyton(future CVFD fireman) and Charles Rose (CVFD fireman) at CVFD - 2001
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Lone Star Photo Gallery

1910 postcard showing horse and carriage in a marl pit in Chuckatuck
L. Rose collection

Whale vertebrae from marl pit in Chuckatuck
Harvey Saunders’ family

Arthur Joyner, operator, with Lone Star Cement locomotive - 1940s
Joyner family photo

Mud barge on Nansemond River - WW2 era
Joyner family photo


Lone Star employees -
Arthur Joyner family photo

Lone Star Cement Co. processing plant on Nansemond River - 1940s
Harvey Saunders family collection

Lone Star executives in Harvey Saunders’ back yard - 1948
Harvey is seated third from the left.
Harvey Saunders family collection

Lone Star drag line - 1960s
Vernon Gayle photo

Lone Star Cement Company employees 1940s
Saunders family collection

Lone Star drag line bucket - 1960s
Vernon Gayle photo

Loaded marl train at Lone Star marl hole in Chuckatuck 1960s
Vernon Gayle photo

Lone Star Cement Company train - 1960s
Vernon Gayle photo

Lone Star train track near marl hole - 1960s
Vernon Gayle photo

Lone Star Mining drag line, crane - 1960s
Vernon Gayle photo

Train car being loaded by Lone Star drag line - 1960s
Vernon Gayle photo

Loading bucket of drag line at Lone Star marl pit - 1960s
Vernon Gayle photo

Crane bucket being loaded at Lone Star marl pit - Chuckatuck - 1960s
Vernon Gayle photo

Lone Star train at Chuckatuck - 1960s
Vernon Gayle photo


Lone Star drag line at Chuckatuck marl hole - 1960s
Vernon Gayle photo

Loaded car of marl destined for Lone Star wash house on Nansemond River - 1860s
Vernon Gayle photo

Harvey F. Saunders’ USA Bureau of Mines Certificate of First Aid Training - 1954
Saunders’ family photo

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native American Photo Gallery

Chief Earl Bass of the Nansemond Tribe
John Shealley photo

Nansemond Indian Chief Earl Bass and wife
P.D. and Ramona Howell
Future Chief Barry Bass in background
1988 photo
Howell family photo


Nansemond Indian arrow points
C. Johnson photo

Jim Pritchard with Nansemond Indian grinding stone - 2011
Charlie Johnson photo

Nansemond Indian arrow points
C. Johnson photo

Nansemond Indian beads
C. Johnson photo

Nansemond Indian tools
C. Johnson photo

Nansemond Indian tools and beads
C. Johnson photo

Chief Earl Bass skinning a deer
Bass family photo

Nansemond Indian Tribe at Bowers Hill
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Notable residents Photo Gallery
Recreation & Entertainment photo Gallery

Schooner Windfrey at Everets - Claude ? , Miss Susie Gilliam - teacher, Jim Causey, Miss Birdie Crump, Miss Mamie Cook -teacher, Elizabeth Kirk Brady - about 1897
Schooner Windfrey was docked at a warehouse on the Western Branch Creek (Everets Creek).
Picture taken by William S. Kirk, visiting from Philadelphia.

S. Pruden, A. Beale, W. Cox, W. Pruden, D. Saunders, B. Holland, J. Holland, and J. W. Pitt hunting on the Beale farm - 1912
Peggie Cobb photo

Fox hunting near Chuckatuck
Charles Johnson photo

Charlie Johnson. Sr. and Mary Pitt on Chuckatuck Mill Pond prior to 1920
Mary Johnson Bush photo

B.W. Godwin’s boat Vivian II on the Chuckatuck Creek - 1928
Ann G. Moore photo

Frances Gilliam, Unknown, Addie Rawles Moore and Dick Woodward at the Marl Hole
Gilliam family photo

Stokes Kirk, Thomas Saunders, Parks, George and Archie Morgan, Josh Pretlow - ice skating on Everets Creek - 1939
Kirk family photo

Osmond Underwood, Jodie Underwood and Jack Darden after a night of hunting opposums, squirrels and rabitts c1942
Jackie U. Saunders photo

Trudy Norfleet with Duke. Gilliam home in the background
Bradshaw family photo

United States Army guys stationed on the north side of the Kings Highway bridge with Dorothy Bradshaw c1944
Bradshaw family photo

Connie Newman after fishing trip on the Chuckatuck Creek
Connie Newman Taylor photo

Alex and Susan Moore- with John and Dwight Bradshaw at the beach c1948
Bradshaw family photo

Lew Morris and Billy Whitley fishing at Everets following a north easter - 1960 - J.R. Kirk home in the background
Kirk family photo

Raymond Cobb and Bryan Graves crabbing on the Chuckatuck Creek
Gilliam family photo

Women’s basketball team c1946 including Anne, Irene and Grace Pinner, Leah Godwin, Leona Bracey Pruden, Dottie and John Bradshaw
Bradshaw photo

Oakland Fast Pitch softball team - 1977
John Kelly, manager, Frank Gayle, coach
Suffolk News Herald photo

Lew Morris and Billy Whitley showing their catch
Suffolk News Herald

Chapman family and friends after a Sandy Bottom rabbit hunt
Gib Chapman photo

Chuckatuck Sports League team with coaches Charles Rose and Aleck Winslow c 1978
Front - John Saunders, Eric Berard, Chuck Knight, John Hardy
Rear - Lee Duff, Lee Lovell, Rusty Rose, Eure, Chip Winslow

Chuckatuck Sports League softball team 1982
Coaches - Paul Gwaltney and Jack Knight

G.P. Gwaltney fast pitch softball term - 1961
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CHS Class of 1957
Front row - Jaira Saunders, Celia Wagner,
Second row - Willard Moger, Frank Staylor, Jack Knight
Back row - Evelyn Coleman, Carolyn Richardson,














Musical program at Chuckatuck High School - 1950s
Left to right - Celia Rae Wagner, Shirley Chapman, Dorothy Jennings, Aleck Winslow, Drexel Bradshaw, ? , Iola Holland, Wayne Mayo
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CHS Junior-Senior Prom - Planters Club - May 1959


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Class of 1959 on senior trip in Washington



Chuckatuck High School Junior-Senior prom at Planters Club - left to right - Janet Knight, P.B. Piland, Lynn KIrk and Charles Rose
May 1959


Bert Hazelwood, President, and Janet Knight, Vice President of the CHS Class of 1959 at the end of graduation ceremony in the CHS auditorium. June 1959















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Some ladies of the CHS Class of 1958 visiting Senator Mills E. Godwin, Jr. on class trip to Richmond.










Chuckatuck lunch room 1950s
Left to right -Reva Gayle, Mrs. Davis, Carolyn Howell, Tim Matthews, Denny Presson, Ercile Beale Haughout

Chuckatuck High School complex showing gym, high school, elementary school, cafeteria with Masonic Lodge on the far right. - 1950s
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Military Photo Gallery

Emmitt Pitt and Charlie Johnson -WWI in Navy at Norfolk - c1920
Mary J. Bush photo

Al Saunders and P.D. Howell in Merchant Marines - 1945
Howell family photo

Alton Gerline Butler - US Army-Purple Heart recipient - WWII
Butler family photo

Arthur Joyner - Navy - WWII
Joyner family photo

Certificate of War - Necessity for Commercial Vehicle Issued to H. L. Gayle - Dec. 1942
Vernon Gayle document

Raymond Emerson Butler - US Army WWII
Butler family photo

PFC Earnest Wilson - WW II
Wilson Family photo

Wilbur Norris Butler - US Army WWII
Butler family photo

William Arthur Butler - US Army WWII
Butler family photo

Harvey Saunders, Jr. - Coast Guard - Korean Conflict
Saunders family photo

O. Lee Underwood - WW 2
Underwood family photo

Wilson Pruden and future wife, Ruth Haas - WW2
Pruden family photo

Wilson Pruden at induction into WW 2
Pruden family photo

Wilson Pruden at Fremington, England - WWII
Pruden family photo

Woody Jones, Wilson Pruden, Calvin Luckham and Maurice Hatchett - 1943
Pruden family photo

Clinton Capehart - WWII
Lived near Everets

Frank A. Spady, Jr. - WWII
Spady family photo

Army Major Paul Woodward - WWII
Jennie W. Lawrence photo

Horton Veterans Cemetery - Milners Road - 2011
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