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… …
State champions (4/30/2025) - Mathews High School’s track team won the state championship in 1970. Members who took first-place awards included, seated from left, Linwood Blake and Charles Clark of the 880 relay and… …
Familiar scene in decades past (4/30/2025) - May Day was a popular and much-aniticpated event in local schools for most of the 20th century, dying around in the last few decades. The big day brought races, baseball… …News from Redart (4/30/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, April 28, 1910from the Mathews Journal There was no meeting at Asbury Chapel, Redart, Sunday afternoon on account of heavy rain. Mr. U.G. Dillehay, who spent the… …
Originals (4/23/2025) - Two out of three fire companies in our counties are planning to build new main stations. From top down are the originals of all three volunteer companies, Abingdon, Gloucester and… …Much for sale, retail, shells (4/23/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, April 21, 1910from the Mathews Journal For sale: Will sell Mercantile business, rent store house or sell place of 40 acres near North. Address XYZ, Journal Office,… …
Spring scene (4/16/2025) - Ellsworth German of James Store plowed a field at North End owned by Upshur Rainier in March 1981, followed by gulls looking for an easy meal of worms or grubs.… …
Solved! (4/16/2025) - Three informants had figured out this photo by the end of Thursday, when the paper came out asking for information. We thank Herbert Hudgins, Sue Greene and Nancy Layng for… …County board sets its levies (4/16/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, April 14, 1910from the Mathews Journal At their last meeting on April 8, the Mathews Board of Supervisors laid the levies for the year as follows: County… …
Model homes; then and now (4/16/2025) - Building a home from the ground up offers more agency at the cost of time and often a higher price tag than their catalogue counterparts. While everyone needs a home,… …
Daffodils in 1965 (4/9/2025) - The Gloucester Daffodil Show was held in early April 1965 at Gloucester High School. In the above photo, recognized by show chairman Elizabeth C. Brown of Zanoni, at left, are… …
Who knows? (4/9/2025) - We found a box of undated color slides showing a number of local commercial fishing scenes. Who can tell us what is happening in this photo, and who may know… …Keeping it lively at Blakes (4/9/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, April 7, 1910from the Mathews Journal Around Blakes, the young people of this place gave a very delightful entertainment at the Chapel Lodge, I.O.O.F., on last Tuesday… …
Scan-a-Graver (4/2/2025) - The Scan-a-Graver purchased in 1955 enabled the Gazette-Journal to prepare its own photographs for printing, rather than send them away. In those days long before computers and offset printing, the… …
The fleet is in (4/2/2025) - Fishing boats of all sizes congregate at Sandbank Wharf, New Point, in this aerial photograph taken in the early 1960s by Walter Becknell. Long a hub of commercial fishing, Sandbank… …Late snow dampens hope of spring (4/2/2025) - 100 YEARS AGOThursday, April 2, 1925from the Gloucester Gazette As the Vernal Equinox has passed, we are now expecting real spring weather, although the showers of snow on Sunday morning… …
Father, son, Coleman Bridge (3/26/2025) - The George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge across the York River opened to traffic May 7, 1952. It was billed as the world’s largest swing-span bridge. Flying overhead to photograph the… …
Big team (3/26/2025) - This photo is for some of our senior citizens, and their children and grandchildren. The 1953-54 basketball team at Gloucester High School had a record number of players, more than… …Sad news from the Island (3/26/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, March 24, 1910from the Mathews Journal The Gwynn community was surprised and grieved on last Wednesday evening to hear of the death of Mrs. Wilbur Godsey. She… …
New sounds (3/19/2025) - Spring of 1958 brought a new band to the music scene in Mathews: “Mac” McKenney’s Hi-Fi Ork, a dance band led by Thomas Hunter High School teacher M.A. McKenney Sr.… …Signpine fundraiser clears $19 (3/19/2025) - 100 YEARS AGOThursday, March 19, 1925from the Gloucester Gazette In Signpine news, the Box Party and general frolic given by the League on Friday, March 13, proved quite a success… …
Yorktown museum honors beloved restaurateurs in exhibit (3/12/2025) - An exhibit that opened Saturday at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown honors the lives and philanthropy of the late Nick and Mary Mathews, beloved York-town restaurateurs. Timed just before… …
Guinea Dipping (3/12/2025) - Thirty-seven brave souls jumped into the chilly waters of the York River in March 2015 to take part in the second annual Gloucester Rowing Association Guinea Dipping. Thirty-two Gloucester High… …