Agriculture

Postcard showing the shipping and loading of melons from Everets. Willie Saunders’ house is in the background. c1914

Mary S. Latimer photo

Boats loaded with melons at Everets to ship down Everets Creek/Western Branch of the Nansemond River - c1914
J.J. Kirk's warehouse is on the left of the boats. The warehouse was used for cotton seeds beginning in 1924. The picture was taken from the bridge. The Ocean Star was captained by John Martin of Eclipse. The Bertha May was another boat owned by Capt. John Martin, which loaded at Everets. The Eva W. was owned and operated by Eddie Wagner. The Mary Ann, sharp at both ends, was owned and operated by Ralph Saunders. The Mary Ann operated from about 1914 to 1925.

Kirk family photo

Dailey Family of Sandy Bottom in cart c.1919

L-r: Ruth Thompson ( Dick’s wife from Philadelphia), Helen Dailey, young Ruth Thompson (Georgia’s step sister).
Theodore Thompson (Georgia’s step-brother) holding the cart.

Lona D. McKinley photo

Arthur Joyner with his bountiful crop of potatoes grown in Chuckatuck!

Bee Norris photo

Cedarbrook Farm - Chuckatuck

Millard Winslow photo

Earnest Winslow, Millard Winslow’s dad, in the potato field on Cedar Brook farm (a truck farm). c.1947

Millard Winslow photo

Ann, D ? , Bertha and Rosa Towns harvesting potatoes on Cedar Brook farm across from St. John’s Church c.1947

Millard Winslow photo

Men and women bagging potatoes on Cedar Brook farm (a truck farm) across from St. John’s Church c1947

Millard Winslow photo

Mathew Towns, Ed Towns and Earnest Lee Towns harvesting potatoes on Cedar Brook farm - c1947

Millard Winslow photo

H. C. Hall tokens given for work on the Anchorage farm; exchangeable at local stores for food, etc. Cherry Grove area

Hall/Duff photo

Plowing peanuts on Rosser Bradshaw Farm at Reid’s Ferry

Barbara Nelms photo

Peanut picker =Reid’s Ferry

Barbara Bradshaw Nelms photo

Jesse Oliver plowing with a mule near Longview - 1943

Oliver family photo

Minton farm at Everets. Notice the hip-on-hip type barn and the corn crib. Schram family was living in the house at that time. c1950

Kirk family photo

Vernon, Jesse and Norman Oliver at Longview with watermelons - August 1, 1960

Oliver family photo

Meadowbrook Farm

Bill Saunders photo

Article about Johnny Barlow of Isle of Wight County, near Longview, raising larger hogs.

Millard Winslow

Part of article about Johnny Winslow raising hogs

Millard Winslow article

Farm workers at a peanut picker near Chuckatuck.

Thelma Glover/Clarice Whitfield photo

Feeding the peanut picker with shocked peanuts near Oakland

Thelma Glover/Clarice Whitfield photo

Bringing shocks of peanuts to the peanut picker near Chuckatuck

Thelma Glover/Clarice Whitfield photo

Shocking peanuts near Chuckatuck

Thelma Glover/Clarice Whitfield photo

Bud Towns - “Boss” - valued employee on Cedar Brook farm, going for milk

Winslow family photo

Willie Lee Towns with hogs going to market from Cedar Brook Farm

Winslow family photo

Hog killing on Cedar Brook Farm c.1972
Dean Goodman, Lewis Winslow, Win Winslow, Elizabeth Winslow, Windy Powell

Winslow family photo

Hog killing on Cedar Brook farm c.1972
Don Goodman, Lewis Allen

Winslow family photo

Preparing for hog killing on Haas farm
Lewis Winslow, Millard Winslow, Lewis Allen, Capt. Dick Doughty

Winslow family photo

Hog killing on Cedar Brook farm
Bill Saunders, Millard Winslow, Bud Townes, Allen Powell, Johnny Winslow

Winslow family photo

Marvin Winslow with children Elizabeth and Chip Winslow
Hog killing on Cedar Brook Farm c.1972

Winslow family photo

Hog killing on Cedar Brook Farm -
Bud Towns and Louis Allen c.1972

Winslow family photo

Hog killing on Cedar Brook Farm c.1972
Cutting up hogs - Millard Winslow, Marvin Winslow, Bud Townes

Winslow family photo

Aleck Winslow (red hat), Lewis Allen (hat), Buddy Bowen at hog killing on Cedar Brook Farm c.1972

Winslow family photo

Hog killing on Cedar Brook Farm c.1972
Capt. Dick Doughty, dragline operator, and David Frohman

Winslow family photo

Chip Winslow and hog heads - c.1975

Winslow Family photo

Cleaning pigs’ feet - Lewis, Preston and Marvin Winslow
1970s Cedar Brook Farm

Winslow family photo

Making sausage in Nina Winslow’s kitchen - c1975
Millard Winslow in foreground; Chip, Elizabeth and Emily, Johnny Winslow, Billy Kessinger, Pleasant W,

Winslow family photo

A lot of sausage!

Millard Winslow photo

Nina Winslow stuffing sausage with machine - c1975
Ella Mae, Emily, Sue, Nina Winslow and Russell Powell

Millard Winslow photo

John Kelly, Johnny Winslow and Kent Gwaltney selling melons in front of Pitt house in Chuckatuck - 1970

Norfolk Virginian Pilot photo

Cecil Rhodes and others - hog killing on Norris farm

Bee Norris photo

Confiscated liquor still

Bill Saunders preparing to plow on Meadowbrook Farm in Chuckatuck.

Saunders family photo

Cows at Butts Farm near Pembroke
Later Pickens and Creekmore farm near Pembroke

Bill Saunders photo

Farmhouse on Butts farm. Later owned by the Saunders, Henry Pinner, Pickens family and then the Creekmore family

Harvey Saunders photo

Clubhouse on Butts farm. Later Pickins then Creekmore farm.

Bill Saunders’ photo

Butts Farm near Pembroke. Later owned by Henry Pinner, W.G. Saunders, Jr., Mason Pickins, then Creekmores

Bill Saunders photo

Shocked peanuts

L. Rose photo

Al Glasscock Farm (Circa 1982-83) in the village of Chuckatuck

Glasscock Family photo