Dr. Lane sails to the city for medical treatment (9/3/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, Sept. 1, 1910from the Mathews Journal We are sorry to report the illness of Dr. Thomas B. Lane, who left on the steamer for treatment. Mr. Herman… …
Go Dukes (8/27/2025) - The Gloucester High School football team in 1959 included, front row from left, co-manager John Wiatt, David Clayton, Boyd Jenkins, Don Adams, Rogers Rowe, A.T. Walthall, tri-captains Reuben Lemons and… …Selling out of buggies (8/27/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, Aug. 25, 1910from the Mathews Journal We are going out of the buggy business and have on hand 1 surrey and 9 top buggies. We will sell… …
Getting in shape (8/20/2025) - Mathews High School students spent part of the summer of 1975 in a weight training program supervised by coaches John Brown and Tommy Dutton. From top down, George Blake, Bud… …
A trip down Memory Lane (8/20/2025) - Mathews native Ellis D. Hudgins, now of Williamsburg, visited Tompkins Cottage last week, taking a trip down Memory Lane. He was born in the county and spent his early years… …Autos are taking the place of buggies (8/20/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, Aug. 18, 1910from the Mathews Journal Automobiles are getting to be as common as buggies used to be; in the coming centuries the horse will have to… …
Gloucester Fair memories (8/13/2025) - The 2010 Gloucester County Fair, held at Ark Park at the end of July and first days of August, included a pageant competition which, top from left, included 2009 Miss… …Corner-stone to be laid for Cobbs Creek High School (8/13/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, Aug. 11, 1910from the Mathews Journal August 23 will be a big day in the annals of Cobbs Creek. On that occasion, the Corner-stone of the handsome… …
The original toll booth (8/6/2025) - This photo from the Christmas season of 1961 shows Santa Claus, who has just crossed the Coleman Bridge aboard a riverboat replica built at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, paying his… …
The Show Boat’s coming: Essay recalls excitement when the James Adams Floating Theatre came to town (8/6/2025) - EDITOR’S NOTE: Betty Ann Murray Richardson, born at Willliams Wharf in 1928, sometime during her life wrote of the delight she and everyone experienced when the James Adams Floating Theatre… …
Learning to swim (8/6/2025) - For many years, the Mathews Chapter of the American Red Cross offered free swimming classes during the summer. As a two-week session ended in 1995, students, from left, Amy Gregg,… …Lighthouse keeper welcomes aboard his family (8/6/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, Aug. 4, 1910from the Mathews Journal A select party, consisting of Capt. Joseph Gayle and family, Mrs. John F. Jarvis’s family, Mr. Willie Jarvis and Mrs. Clarence… …
Auxiliary members (7/30/2025) - The Gloucester Sheriff’s Auxiliary completed its first month of duty in July 1984. The members took training twice a month, bought their own uniforms, and assisted with patrols. Shown are… …Claim purse, glasses, and cabbage plants (7/30/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, July 28, 1910from the Mathews Journal Lost: On Sunday night a black leather folding purse, containing a dollar bill, a number of coupons and some valuable papers… …
Not one ounce of plastic in that car! (7/24/2025) - Sometimes it is educational to look at how things were done in the decades before plastics entered every aspect of our lives. Sharp-eyed Regina Smith, our staff member who compiles… …
Chamber award (7/23/2025) - Kristin Stewart, who had recently graduated from Mathews High School, received a $500 scholarship in July 2000 from the Mathews Chamber of Commerce at the organization’s annual picnic, held at… …New game of foot ball comes to Peary (7/23/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, July 21, 1910from the Mathews Journal Peary correspondent reports: Master Robert Hudgins, who has been visiting his uncle, Mr. William C. Thomas of Baltimore, has returned home.… …
Paying for war (7/16/2025) - Germany had surrendered a month earlier, but efforts continued nationwide to fund the continuing fight against Japan in World War II. In June 1945, Gloucester women operated a war bond… …
Reading award winners (7/16/2025) - Children winning awards in the Gloucester Library’s summer reading program in 1980 included, from left, Elizabeth Hall, JoElle Barrack, Aileen Musante, Kathy Cartwright and Jennifer Schroeder. Prizes were given to… …Good news for a hot July (7/16/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, July 14, 1910from the Mathews Journal Mrs. Jennie Gwynn of Redart will leave shortly for Middlesex, where she goes to assist the Rev. Mr. Moffitt in a… …
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… …