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Logging using an ox team.

Coastal artillery drill, Ft. Story, May 17, 1929.

Railway gun emplacement, Fort Story, Virginia, World War II.

Amphibious training with landing craft at Ft. Story, Virginia.

Men in uniform stand at attention during a railway gun demonstration in Fort Story, Virginia in the 1940s.

Soldiers inside several DUKW vehicles on the beach, likely in Fort Story, Virginia.

Soliders aboard what appears to be a DUKW on a sand dune likely at Fort Story, Virginia.

Men standing at a logging operation in the Cape Henry "Desert" sometime in the early twentieth century.

DUKW towing another DUKW on the beach at Fort Story, Virginia.

Men in uniform and other pilgrims gather at the Landing Cross site for the annual Care Henry Pilgrimage on April 26, 1945. During the early years of World War II, the annual pilgrimage had been transferred to local churches in Virginia Beach and…

Attendees gather at the cross next to the Cape Henry Lighthouse for the annual Cape Henry Pilgrimage in 1926.

A ceremonial planting of a loblolly pine took place on January 14, 1953, at 49th and Atlantic Avenue. Officials of Virginia Beach and the State Highway Commission joined members of the Council of Garden Clubs of Virginia Beach and Princess Anne…

The annual Princess Anne Garden Club Rose Show in 1953.

This London Bridge house was built approximately 1785 by John Forrest, whose daughter Sarah married Henry Barnes Woodhouse. Sarah died young, but Woodhouse continued to occupy the house until his death in 1879.

Henry Barnes Woodhouse, who lived in the London Bridge area in Princess Anne County where he farmed and operated a blacksmith shop. Woodhouse served as brigadier general of the Nineteenth Brigade, Fourth Division of the Virginia Militia in the 1840s…

Bernard P. Holland standing before the general merchandise store he opened on Seventeenth Street in Princess Anne County, Virginia, in 1910 and operated until the 1930s.

An educational exhibit of Miss Evelyn Collins Hill, rosarian of the Princess Anne Garden Club, and past rosarian of the Garden Club of Virginia. The photograph suggests the flowers were cultivated on Sea Breeze Farm, Lynnhaven, Virginia.

A farm laborer stands near a wagon holding a basket over top of a barrel on a farm in Princess Anne County, Virginia.

Barrels on unspecified land in Princess Anne County, Va.

A farm laborer leads a mule-drawn cart with a device that is dusting cantaloupes, a crop that Princess Anne farmers found a market for in Norfolk during the 1920s. This July 22 Experimental Station photograph was thematic to the 1920s when farmers…