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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…

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

Sharon E. Swadley Frady receives diploma from President Lambuth M. Clarke at the Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony in 1970.

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…

Dennie E. Allen, the first member of the 1970 graduating class, receives his diploma at Virginia Wesleyan College.

A black and white photograph of Virginia Wesleyan College's first student body.

Black and white photograph of Virginia Wesleyan College's first full-time faculty and staff.
From left, Donald Davis, admission director; Joseph Stevens, political science professor and acting dean; Ann Matson, bookkeeper; Lambuth Clarke, president;…

Two young women point a driver toward an unspecified direction at the 1972 Women of Wesleyan Flea Market.

The flume at Thirteenth Street was constructed in 1890 to convey water to Lake Holly to allow saltwater fishing for guests.

The Christian Higher Education Campaign booklet issued by the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church. Contains a message from Resident Bishop Paul Neff Garber, a description of the Methodist universities and colleges in Virginia, upcoming…

On September 8, 2016, Virginia Wesleyan College celebrated its first Founder's Day. This logo was used for the inaugural Founder's Day convocation. Virginia Wesleyan College was founded in 1961, and welcomed its first matriculating class in 1966.

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

College Marshal Col. Robert Tucker leads the full procession to the Hofheimer Library plaza for the 1970 commencement ceremony at Virginia Wesleyan College.

College Marshal Col. Robert Tucker leads the academic procession from Village 1 to the Hofheimer Library plaza for the 1970 commencement ceremony at Virginia Wesleyan College.

In a meeting held on April 1961, Bishop Paul Neff Garber (left); Dr. Joseph S. Johnston; Milo Henke, Director for the Conference Crusade for Higher Education; and Dr. John O. Gross of the General Board of Higher Education in Nashville, prepare to…

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

Lieutenant Governor Mills Godwin speaks to the spectators from the podium at the Virginia Wesleyan College Village 1 groundbreaking ceremony on July 18, 1965.

Lieutenant Governor Mills Godwin at the microphone on the podium with the shovels that will be used for the Virginia Wesleyan College Village 1 groundbreaking ceremony on July 18, 1965.

Rising senior Susan M. Ralph admires her fiancée and graduating student, Thomas Robert Brett, at the 1971 Virginia Wesleyan College commencement ceremony.