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,… …
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… …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… …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… …
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… …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,… …
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… …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… …
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… …