
Advertisement from Virginia Gazette (or American Beacon) for Chuckatuck Hotel in late 1800s.
Possibly located in later Spady house.

Students at the Chuckatuck Military School started by teacher James J. Phillips, about 1854
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Postal envelope canceled in Chuckatuck after 1850.
Matthew Spady collection

Masonic and town hall in Chuckatuck c1850
Masonic Hall remains in 2025 and is still used as a Masonic Hall.

Capt. Charles Bernard Godwin, Sr. and his wife, Martha Whitney Godwin c1859 walking to Wesley Chapel from home. Spady house in the background.
Judge James C. Godwin photo

Peck’s Cheap Store - later Gwaltney’s Store
Mary S. Latimer photo

Postcard showing Chuckatuck marl pit 12-1910
Notice the horse and buggy in the pit.
Lynn Rose collection

Pitt family members n front of Pitt store in Chuckatuck
Spady family collection

Former slave quarters behind Pitt house in Chuckatuck - c1900
Library of Congress/Carolyn Keen collection

Charlie and Celestia Brock Pitt when married in 1893
Mary J. Bush collection

1913 Chuckatuck postcard
Lynn K. Rose collection

Early picture of Chuckatuck grist mill
Keen/Farmer collection

Josiah Chapman family - date ?
Bradshaw collection

Granddaddy Gilliam - circa early 1900
Gilliam family photo

Early school students in Chuckatuck c1907
Top row - Katherine Pinner and Lizzie Pinner, teacher
Middle row - Charlie B. Godwin, Whitney Godwin, Carlisle Gilliam
Front row - Wilmer Godwin, Oliver Gilliam
Pinner house in the background
Gilliam family photo

Maggie Pitt (Spady), age 16, c 1916
Emma Spady Kelly photo

Jack Hulda Kelly and wife Nannie Ruby Moody Kelly - c1918
Hulda Knight photo

Mattie Holland, also known as “Miss Patty”, maid to Gilliam family c1930
Gilliam family collection


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Valentine sent to Miss Nannie Lawrence of Cotton Plains dated Feb. 12, 1832
Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences

Mary Virginia Johnson and her mother Mary in front of Pinner House c1922
Mary Virginia Bush collection

Louisiana Finney Crump of Chuckatuck
Emma Spady photo

Charlie Johnson with daughter, Mary Virginia, at Johnson’s Store c1925
Mary J. Bush collection

Composite of Chuckatuck photos
Emma Spady collection

Laura Woodward, Claire Cotten, Annie Lee Gilliam and Dot Gilliam at the Woodwards - 1933
Gilliam photo collection

Charles Bernard Godwin, Sr. and family in front of Bernard W. Godwin home - 1928
James Godwin photo

Carolina Trailways bus in front of Pitt store in Chuckatuck
Johnson family photo

Guests on Edvina, Godwin family boat
Godwin family photo

Gilliam family friends - 1908/09
Lynn Rose photo

Miss Madge Goodson and friend in front of Gilliam home in Chuckatuck - c1908/09
L. Rose photo - granddaughter of Madge Goodson Gill

Annie Gilliam, Madge Goodson and unknown lady in Chuckatuck
c1908/09
Lynn Rose photo

Miss Gilliam and Miss Madge Goodson, school friends with Godwin-Knight house in the background - c1908/09
Lynn Rose photo - Miss Goodson was Lynn’s grandmother who was visiting her college friend in Chuckatuck.

Jasper Cotten Home in Chuckatuck c1908-09
Earlier the location of a military school run by Col. J. J. Phillips
The ladies in the front were Miss , Miss , Miss Madge Goodson, Miss .
Madge Goodson was the grandmother of Lynn K. Rose

Madge Goodson, second from right, with Wesley Chapel Methodist Church in background 1908/09
L. Rose photo - Madge was Lynn’s grandmother visiting Gilliam college friends in Chuckatuck.

Spillway at Crumps Mill Pond - 1908/09
L. Rose photo

Gilliam family friends at Chuckatuck Mill Pond - c1908/09
L. Rose photo

Ladies in front of Gilliam home - Chuckatuck - 1908/09
L. Rose photo

Early Pitt house at Chuckatuck intersection
Emma Spady Kelly collection

Carolina Trailways bus in front of Pitt house and store waiting for passengers
Emma Spady Kelly collection


F. A. Spady store and garage - Chuckatuck
Angus Hines collection

Pitt house and store, Chuckatuck
Emma S. Kelly photo

Matthew Crumpler in front of Gwaltney’s Store c1920
Beale family photo

Goldie Mae Underwood Boulds and J.T. Brock
Jackie U. Saunders photo

Moore children in front of their home in Chuckatuck c1925
House still standing in 2025 to the left of the post office
Moore family photo

Chapman family - Front - Sonny, Edith
Rear - Novella, Dotty, Rosser on porch of home in Chuckatuck c1948
Bradshaw collection

C.H. Pitt - 90th birthday party - 1958
Mary J. Bush collection

Charles Johnson in front yard 1946
Notice Pitt Store, Johnson’s Store and Gwaltney’s Store in background
Johnson family photo

Dailey family picnic in Chuckatuck - Memorial Day 1950
Dailey family photo

Charlie Johnson on a pony in Johnson's front yard - 1938
Notice Johnson’s Store and Gwaltney’s Store in background.
Johnson family photo

Ferry Point Farm home - Wright family photo

Ferry Point Farm view from the Nansemond River
Wright family photo

Overview of Ferry Point farm

Ferry Point Farm when owned by the Nick Wright family
Wright family photo

Ernest Winslow family c.1943
Front - Emily, Ernest and Betty
Second row - Millard, Marvin and Aleck
Rear - Pleasant (Polly), Jesse, Nina and Louis
1942
Winslow family photo

Chuckatuck friends -
Front - Evelyn Yeates, Jimmy Moore, Polly Johnson, Billy Moore, and Addie Rawls Austin.
Rear - Polly and Florie Umphlette, Dwight Bradshaw, Susan Moore
Moore family photo

Sonny Chapman, Scott Saunders - seated
Audrey Newman, Maxine Gayle, Jean Dailey - standing
c1944 in Chuckatuck
Newman photo

Wesley Chapel kids (including Bradshaws, Hollands, Saunders, Johnsons) - c 1946
Bradshaw photo

Mills E. Godwin - Lt. Governor campaign 1961
left to right - Unknown, Charlie Johnson, C.W. Darden, Mills E. Godwin, Jr. and J. Rosser Chapman
William Simpson photo

Harvey Saunders, Jr. with his homemade airplane giving his brother Jerry a ride - 1942
Harvey Saunders photo

Hulda Kelly c1938
Janet K. Piland photo

Chuckatuck friends
Rear -Nancy and Charlotte Holland
Front - Butch Fronfelter and Judy Holland c1941
Fronfelter photo

John Kelly truck- General Hauling, with daughter Juanita Kelly c1949
Emma S. Kelly photo

Irene Pinner Knight in front of Dr. L. L. Eley’s house c1948
Janet Piland photo

Janet and Jack Knight c1947
Janet Knight Piland photo

John and Dorothy Bradshaw when John was in the Sea Bees- c1953
Bradshaw collection

Mr. Spady, Emma Mae Spady Kelly and Juanita Kelly in front of Spady house showing Chuckatuck intersection c1945
Emma S. Kelly collection

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

Mount Ararat house in 1960 - built c1800
Located on Rt. 10 on Suffolk Scarp
Replaced with a brick house by Howard and Judith Gilliam Cobb
Judith Gilliam Cobb photo

Godwin-Knight House 1992
VA Dept. of Historic Resources photo

Last community postmark for Chuckatuck - 1974
Lynn Rose collection

Chuckatuck post offices, old and new
May 14, 1961 - Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

Billy Moore, Mills E. Godwin, Jr, Katherine Godwin, William M. Simpson, Dorothy C. Bradshaw, Shelton Dailey (seated), and J.R. Chapman at polls Race for the Senate of Virginia c1956.
Bradshaw family photo

Oreva Cain Dean on a trip through Chuckatuck - Fall 1940
Supplied by her son, Charles Dean

Fannie Pierce during freshman orientation at Chuckatuck High School - 1955
Notice Byrd’s Store in the background.
L. Rose photo

Mills E. Godwin, Jr. and W.G. Saunders, Jr. - 1961 - at dedication of new Chuckatuck post office
Saunders family collection

Left to right - Godwin, Norfleet, Willoughby, Saunders homes c1960
L. Rose photo

Meadow Lot and previous home of J. R. Chapman - 1995
Lynn K. Rose photo

Spady House built early 1800s and the Wilson Spady store in the fall of 1995
Lynn Rose photo

State marker for Chuckatuck. This marker was destroyed by an automobile in 1990. It was replaced with a new marker in 2024 through the hard work of Drexel Bradshaw.

John Bradshaw at his 80th birthday party with Karen and Thomas Hazelwood

Al Glasscock’s farm with fields and barns
L. Rose photo

Flags flying in Chuckatuck for July 4th, 2003.
A patriotic Boy Scout project by Cody Brandon of Chuckatuck Troop 25.
L. Rose photo

Flags along Kings Highway - July 4, 2008
L. Rose photo

Marjorie Mathews Creekmore and Hazel Dailey Delk, childhood friends, selecting photos for Chuckatuck history project - 2011

Marjorie Mathews Creekmore - 2011

Isaac Blough - Master wood craftsman - c1973
Sawyer at Kirk Lumber Company
L. Rose photo

Kathryn Pinner Barbee of Chuckatuck holding John Rose with Rusty Rose in the foreground in 1971. She had made the afghan blanket in her lap for John. She was living upstairs in the Minton house at Everets at the time.
L. Rose photo
L. Rose photo

Mr. Christensen of Chuckatuck builds model ships
May 1954 Virginian-Pilot

Saunders Supply under EPA ruling for restoration of area affected by Kepone

Geneva Kenny and Melvin Diggs at Chuckatuck voting precinct 1990
L. Rose photo

Ozzie Porter and Harvey Saunders - poll workers in 1990
L. Rose photo

Chuckatuck Grist Mill without water wheel - 1960s
L. Rose photo

Area below water wheel leading to Chuckatuck Creek - 1960s
L. Rose photo

Suzanne Myers Saunders, Brenda Gayle Wright and Lynn Kirk Rose - Poll workers - 1990
L. Rose photo

Virginia Chambers, Lois Hamlin and Melvin Diggs
Poll workers in 1990
L. Rose photo

Front of book of tickets for Nick Wright bridge - Nansemond Bridge Corporation
Wright family

Hinshaw map showing southern Virginia quaker area - Hinshaw map

Kings Highway bridge from Chuckatuck side of Nansemond Riiver
Bradshaw family photo

Kings Highway Bridge from Chuckatuck side of Nansemond River
Bradshaw collection

Kings Highway Bridge with snow
Bradshaw photo

Chuckatuck mill pond after dam broke

Chuckatuck mill pond after dam broke

Mr. Doyle’s house across from the Grist Mill. Mr. Doyle was the miller.

New dam under construction for the Chuckatuck mill pond

Base of new dam for Chuckatuck Mill Pond

Part of the original dam for Crump’s Mill Pond

Chuckatuck kids - circa 1953-54 - including Bradshaws, Saunders, Moores, Norfleet
Moore family photo

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Ribbon cutting for the James River Bridge
Miss Chuckatuck - Dorothy Moore - 2nd from right
with Harry Byrd
Moore family

First automobile wreck in Nansemond County

Archie Fronfelter of Chuckatuck

Butch and Polly with Uncle Ramey
Fronfelter family photo

Butch Fronfelter, age 5, on Kings Highway Bridge
Fronfelter family photo

Butch Fronfelter in Mr. Christensen’s uniform
Fronfelter family photo

Butch Fronfelter in Mr. Christiansen’s military uniform

Butch Fronfelter playing baseball in Chuckatuck
Fronfelter family photo

Front - Butch Fronfelter and Judy Holland
Rear - Nancy & Charlotte Holland
Fronfelter family photo

Polly Johnson and Butch Fronfelter having fun in Chuckatuck!
Fronfelter family photo

Polly Johnson, Butch Fronfelter with Uncle Ramey and Aunt Mabel
Fronfelter family photo

Theresa, Archie and Butch Fronfelter with dog on front porch in Chuckatuck.

Aunt Rosa Rossen - c1900
Gilliam family photo

Dot Gilliam with Judith - c 1917 in Chuckatuck
Gilliam family photo

Gilliam homes in the snow - 1956
Gilliam family photo

Gilliam home with Miss Patty’s home in background - 1956
Gilliam family photo

Richard and Annie Gilliam’s home built in 1898
Gilliam family photo

Richard and Annie Gilliam’s home built in 1898
Gilliam family photo

Margaret Smiley, Mildred and Leah Godwin, and Nancy Ray Gilliam
Gilliam family photo

Mr. Gilliam
Gilliam family photo

Ray and Dot Gilliam - married 1916
Gilliam family photo

Mr. Gilliam - top left - with his fraternity brothers at William and Mary.
Gilliam family photo

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Mrs. Mary Byrd and sons

Miss Patty - house keeper for the Gilliam family
Gilliam family photo

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Mrs. Ray Gilliam being honored for over 40 years as a Sunday School teacher at Wesley Chapel Methodist Church - 1962
l to r - Mr. Gilliam, Mrs. Gilliam
Gilliam family photo

Frances Gilliam, , Addie Rawles Moore and Dick Woodward at the marl hole
Gilliam family photo

Nancy Gilliam Lambdin swimming in the marl hole!
Gilliam family photo

Judy Franco and Jo Lambdin diving at the marl hole
Gilliam Family photo

Nancy Gilliam and others at the marl hole
Gilliam family photo

Marl pit in late 1950s
Gilliam family photo

Joe and Tripper at the marl pit
Gilliam family photo

Marl pit in the snow - 1980
Gilliam family photo

Marl pit in the snow - 1980

Temporary stop light on Route 10 at grist mill following Hurricane Floyd - 3-23-1999
L. Rose photo

Portable bridge arriving in Chuckatuck to repair Rt. 10 following hurricane Floyd - 3-23-999
L. Rose photo

Road damage to Rt. 10 in Chuckatuck due to Hurricane Floyd
3-23-1999
L. Rose photo























































































































































