Eastern Shore History

PEOPLE:
• Capeville High School 1928 Class Roll
• Cape Charles High School 1920 Class Roll
  Provided by Jennifer Doughty Hall
• A Story About Henry Alexander WISE, Lawyer, Soldier, Statesman, War Governor and Nestor of the Virginia Bar, and a native of Accomack County on the Eastern Shore of Virginia
• Commissioners and Clerks 1640-1645
• Franktown Nassawadox High School, 1925-26 Freshman Class Roll
  Complete with photo.
• Graduates of Franktown Nassawadox High School 1907 thru 1918
• Franktown Nassawadox High School High School Faculty 1925/26
• Franktown Nassawadox High School Grammar School Faculty 1925/26
• Franktown Nassawadox High School Group of Students 1925/26
• Franktown Nassawadox High School Girls' basketball team 1925/26
• Private James S. STURGIS of Wardtown, VA, Confederate Volunteer, from Jody and Pat Hopkins 
• Newspaper Clippings With Photos of Eastern Shore Citizens From World War II contributed by Pat Scherzinger
• African-American Families of Virginia's Eastern Shore
• Rev. William Gwynn Coe and the Convention of Accomack.  By Carl Robert Coe
  
  TOWNS & AREAS
  CAPE CHARLES
• CHINCOTEAGUE (large section with history, census, family data, etc.).
• The Formation of DRUMMONDTOWN, later known as ACCOMAC.
• HOG ISLAND.
• PARKSLEY 1929: A Short Historical Sketch.

  CHURCHES

• RED BANK Baptist Church in Marionville
• CROWSONTOWN Methodist Episcopal Church in Justisville.
• HUNGARS Church .  Information kindly provided by Michael Graves

  PLACES

• GHOTES Virtual Cemetery
• The Old Groton Cemetery - Drafted by Robert L. Ellis, edited by Henry Martin and Joanne Watson Percy. Web page design by Pamela J. Donaldson
• The History of Bagwell Oil Co,
  Complete with some nice old photos. (Use the back button of your browser to return to ghotes.)

  TIDBITS.

• History Tidbits of Eastern Shore
• What Could They Have Been Thinking? Excerpts from court records to amuse and entertain you
• Early Eastern Shore Newspaper, National Recorder
• Some Notes on Virginia Land and Land Records
• Cattle Marks
• Mourning Rings from Susan Shames
• Legal Age from Dot Barnum
• Coroner from David Thomas Konig
• Letter from Anne Nock to Barbara Cox
• Orphans
• Naming Traditions
• Who Was William Joynes, Jr.?  Ghote Ruth Williams, has sent us this reminder of the value of Virginia's Order Books. Added January 12, 2002
• Fee Tail and Docking It from Barbara Cox
• Tobacco Money from Barbara Cox
  
  REMEMBERING LIFE ON THE EASTERN SHORE
• Summer on the Eastern Shore
• Life on the Farm
  
  HISTORY IN PERSPECTIVE
• The Eastern Shore and the Civil War

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