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A photograph of three unidentified Women of Wesleyan.

The photograph was taken at the Hotel Jefferson in Richmond in September 1952. Herbert W. Ozlin, the county (agriculture) demonstration agent for Princess Anne County had taken two 4-H students to the event and the girl, Pat Lupton Reader, had…

The house located at the Ferry Farm on a peninsula jutting into the western branch of the Lynnhaven River.

Pictures from the 1987 summer dig conducted by Colonial Williamsburg archaeologists at the Ferry Farm. Archaeologists had hoped to locate the 1735 Princess Anne Courthouse, but instead found the well-preserved English basement on which Anthony…

Turkeys in front of a wagon on the William Simpson farm located on the Knott's Island end of Princess Anne County, Virginia. The Princess Anne turkey was highly prized in Norfolk and beyond at holiday time.

Unidentified man in the Frost family soybean field in Blackwater sometime in the 1950s.

Dick Cockrell, Princess Anne County Agent, kneeling on a lawn looking down at a box of Princess Anne sweet potatoes, Porto Rico variety, that he is holding. Cockrell was helping to publicize the Princess Anne sweet potato.

Children, likely club members, standing around a welcome sign for the Princess Anne County 4-H clubs.

Waiting to load potatoes onto trains at Diamond Springs, Princess Anne County in 1912

Photographs of the last building from the Walke family estate, "Fairfield." While it long was thought to have been a kitchen, now there is a feeling that it might have served as residence for an overseer, tenant, etc. It was demolished several…

Two buildings on the Virginia Tech ornamental/truck research extension center land on Diamond Springs Road in Princess Anne County, Virginia when acquired in 1907.

Two unidentified men operating an Irish potato planter at Whitehurst on March 20, 1917.

Five men and several dead, hanging hogs on the John E. Smith farm in rural Princess Anne County, Virginia in the early twentieth century.

Three unidentified African American men who appear to be working on a farm as evidenced by the plow behind them.

Arnold E. Ewell, who was elected to his first term in the House of Delegates in 1899, is photographed with his sisters Mary (left), Nora, and Alexina. Ewell operated a large farm on the western shore of the Lynnhaven River and maintained an active…

Members of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church gathered around a bus for a church school outing in the World War I era. The bus was equipped with roll-down curtains in case of inclement weather.

Graduating students, Linda Lawrence and Carol Ann Mertens, have their caps adjusted by their fathers, Mr. M. H. Lawrence and Mr. WM. R. Mertens, at the 1973 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony,

Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton speaking at the 1976 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.

Graduate William Denton receives his diploma from his father and commencement speaker, Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton, at the 1976 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.

Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton speaking at the 1976 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.