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A boy pulls his wagon of goods at the Women of Wesleyan (WOW) flea market.

Barrels on unspecified land in Princess Anne County, Va.

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

A photograph of the General Hospital of Virginia Beach, formerly located on Arctic Avenue and 25th Street.

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.

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.

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…

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…

An outdoor flea market, which was introduced by the Women of Wesleyan as a fundraising initiative for Virginia Wesleyan College. The Twin Drive-In Theatre is the likely location of the flea market in this photograph. and was used through the 1970s.…

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Guests gathered on the porch of the Ferebee Hotel on Fourteenth Street, Virginia Beach.