The Port Haywood Parliament (9/3/2025) - Mornings in Port Haywood brought together a group of friends at M&M Building Supply, Inc., who would sit around, enjoy their coffee, and solve world problems. This photo of the… …
So many post offices here, back in 1966. Find them all! (9/3/2025) - Gloucester County had 23 post offices and three delivery routes in the spring of 1966, and Mathews County had 28 post offices. Arthur W. Jones of Susan designed a “Postoffice… …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… …
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… …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… …
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… …
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… …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… …
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… …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… …
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,… …
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… …
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… …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… …
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… …
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… …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.… …
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… …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… …
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… …
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… …
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… …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… …
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… …
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,… …