Library vignettes (7/9/2025) - Mathews Memorial Library, a significant entity in the county for nearly a century, has enriched the local experience in countless activities. Here are three photos featuring long-term librarians who preceded… …Minister picks corn on July 1 (7/9/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, July 7, 1910from the Mathews Journal Susan correspondent reports: Rev. J.A. Winn of East Mathews charge, is not only a good preacher, and worker in the “Master’s… …
Who knows? (7/9/2025) - This photo is made from a negative with “Ware Junior Choir 1959” written on the exterior. So far we have not been able to find the photo used in the… …Summer brings visits, picnics and the Fourth (7/2/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, June 30, 1910from the Mathews Journal Little Alfred White, who is spending some time with his grandmother, Mrs. C.F. Drisgill of Diggs, is very sick at this… …
Patriots walk? (7/2/2025) - John Shackelford holds aloft an American flag that he and his friends, John Moore and Thomas Silver, found in July 2009 on their way from Enfield Road to Main Street… …
Remembering Jo Ann Davis (7/2/2025) - More than 150 people gathered on June 30, 2009 to designate the Gloucester postal facility as the Congresswoman Jo Ann S. Davis Post Office. The First District member of Congress,… …
The sorting table (6/25/2025) - Pound net fishermen in Mathews, from left, George Burroughs, Johnnie Frank Johnson and L.W. “Snooks” Burroughs, sorted the day’s catch in June 1989. The men brought their catch to the… …
First shots (6/25/2025) - According to a historical marker erected by the National Park Service’s Chesapeake Gateways and Watertrails Network, the first shots in the Civil War in Virginia were fired on May 3,… …A fine time at Sunday gathering (6/25/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, June 23, 1910from the Mathews Journal Mr. and Mrs. Willie Hutson of New Point entertained a large crowd on Sunday last. Among the number were: Miss Pansy… …
Nurse comes home to Mathews (6/18/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, June 16, 1910from the Mathews Journal Miss Eunice Hudgins has returned to her home to spend some time with her parents at Grimstead. Miss Hudgins is a… …
Who knows? (6/18/2025) - We could use some help from our Gloucester readers. This is a photo of the Gloucester Choral Society from around 1976, and thanks to Christine Wesson, we have names of… …
Adoption papers (6/18/2025) - Gloucester Clean Community coordinator Sara Delo, left, presented signs in June 1988 to individuals and representatives of groups who had adopted roads to keep clean of litter. From left are… …Gloucester tops Tappahannock 11-9 (6/11/2025) - 100 YEARS AGOThursday, June 11, 1925from the Gloucester Gazette The Gloucester baseball team journeyed to Tappahannock yesterday and beat the Tappahannock team by the score of 11 to 9. Two… …
GOP primary (6/11/2025) - Voting officials Shirley Snow and Eunice Hyer, at left, and voter Pat Almond share a light moment as Howard Almond, right, voted in June 2010 at the Piankatank District polling… …Shoes for sale, as low as 19 cents a pair (6/4/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, June 2, 1910from the Mathews Journal Never was such a sale in force in this County. 5,000 pairs shoes must go at a price. Some as low… …
GHS graduation at CNU (6/4/2025) - Two decades ago, Gloucester High School held its first-ever graduation at the Freeman Center at Christopher Newport University in Newport News. At the 2005 ceremony, above, GHS counselor Robert Mompoint… …Safe driving campaign underway in Gloucester (5/28/2025) - 100 YEARS AGOThursday, May 28, 1925from the Gloucester Gazette With a view to doing its part to decrease the growing number of automobile fatalities and accidents, The Gazette is launching… …
Honor guard (5/28/2025) - Members of the American Legion Post 83 Honor Guard and Rifle Squad the 2010 Memorial Day service in Mathews with a gun salute and the playing of “Taps.” Squad members… …
Faces on the walls: Portraits honor community leaders (5/28/2025) - If you attend regular meetings held in the historic Mathews courthouse on Court Street, you may have wondered: who are all these faces staring down at me? The walls are… …Phone man buys a Ford (5/21/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, May 19, 1910from the Mathews Journal Mr. L.A. Drake, the Tidewater Telephone Company’s manager at Mathews, has recently purchased a fine Ford automobile. Miss Delle Powell returned… …
PTA officers (5/21/2025) - In May 1965, as the school year drew to a close, the Abingdon Elementary School PTA elected its officers for the next school year. From left are Mrs. Harry Lewis,… …Community news, illness abates (5/14/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, May 12, 1910from the Mathews Journal Laban correspondent reports that we are very glad to hear of the probability of the public schools of this district being… …
For the firehouse (5/14/2025) - The Northwest Mathews Community League, which was active in Cobbs Creek and Dutton areas in the late 1980s, presented the Cobbs Creek Fire Station an American flag at its February… …Gloucester court day draws a Mathews crowd (5/7/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, May 5, 1910from the Mathews Journal Messrs. L.C. Garnett, J. Boyd Sears, J.M, Pugh, J.T. Christian and many other good Mathews people attended Gloucester court on Monday.… …
House of Flowers (5/7/2025) - Ruthie Richardson, above, opened Ruthie’s House of Flowers in 1987 in Gloucester Court House in a shop that formerly housed Watkins Florist, located off the Court Circle and operated by… …