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Students at the Chuckatuck Military School started by teacher James J. Phillips, about 1854
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Postal envelope canceled in Chuckatuck after 1850.
Matthew Spady collection
Masonic and town hall in Chuckatuck, c1850
Town hall was once used as a school.
Masonic Hall remains in 2025 and is still used as a Masonic Hall.
Capt. Charles Bernard Godwin, Sr. and his wife, Martha Whitney Godwin, c1859, walking to Wesley Chapel from home. Spady house in the background.
Judge James C. Godwin photo
Peck’s Cheap Store prior to 1900 - later Gwaltney’s Store
Mary S. Latimer tintype photo
Postcard showing Chuckatuck marl pit - Dec. 1910
Notice the horse and buggy in the pit.
Lynn Rose collection
Pitt family members n front of Pitt store in Chuckatuck
Spady family collection
Former slave quarters behind Pitt house in Chuckatuck - c1900
Library of Congress/Carolyn Keen collection
Charlie and Celestia Brock Pitt when married in 1893
Mary Johnson Bush collection
1913 Chuckatuck postcard
Lynn K. Rose collection
Early picture of Chuckatuck grist mill
Keen/Farmer collection
Josiah Chapman family - date ?
Bradshaw collection
Granddaddy Gilliam - circa early 1900
Gilliam family photo
Early school students in Chuckatuck c1907
Top row - Katherine Pinner and Lizzie Pinner, teacher
Middle row - Charlie B. Godwin, Whitney Godwin, Carlisle Gilliam
Front row - Wilmer Godwin, Oliver Gilliam
Pinner house in the background
Gilliam family photo
Maggie Pitt (Spady), age 16, c 1916
Emma Spady Kelly photo
Jack Hulda Kelly and wife Nannie Ruby Moody Kelly - c1918
Hulda Knight photo
Mattie Holland, also known as “Miss Patty”, maid to Gilliam family c1930
Gilliam family collection
Valentine sent to Miss Nannie Lawrence of Cotton Plains dated Feb. 12, 1832
Nannie Lawrence was great, great aunt of Lynn Rose
Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences
Mary Virginia Johnson and her mother Mary in front of Pinner House c1922
Mary Virginia Bush collection
Louisiana Finney Crump of Chuckatuck
Emma Spady photo
Charlie Johnson with daughter, Mary Virginia, at Johnson’s Store c1925
Mary J. Bush collection
Composite of Chuckatuck photos
Emma Spady collection
Laura Woodward, Claire Cotten, Annie Lee Gilliam and Dot Gilliam at the Woodwards - 1933
Gilliam photo collection
Charles Bernard Godwin, Sr. and family in front of Bernard W. Godwin home - 1928
James Godwin photo
Carolina Trailways bus in front of Pitt store in Chuckatuck
Johnson family photo
Guests on Edvina, Godwin family boat
Godwin family photo
Gilliam family friends - 1908/09
Lynn Rose photo
Miss Madge Goodson and friend in front of Gilliam home in Chuckatuck - c1908/09
L. Rose photo - granddaughter of Madge Goodson Gill
Annie Gilliam, Madge Goodson and unknown lady in Chuckatuck
c1908/09
Lynn Rose photo
Miss Gilliam and Miss Madge Goodson, school friends with Godwin-Knight house in the background - c1908/09
Lynn Rose photo - Miss Goodson was Lynn’s grandmother who was visiting her college friend in Chuckatuck.
Spillway at Crumps Mill Pond - 1908/09
L. Rose photo
Gilliam family friends at Chuckatuck Mill Pond - c1908/09
L. Rose photo
Ladies in front of Gilliam home - Chuckatuck - 1908/09
L. Rose photo
Early Pitt house at Chuckatuck intersection
Emma Spady Kelly collection
Carolina Trailways bus in front of Pitt house and store waiting for passengers
Emma Spady Kelly collection
F. A. Spady store and garage - Chuckatuck
Angus Hines collection
Pitt house and store, Chuckatuck
Emma S. Kelly photo
Matthew Crumpler in front of Gwaltney’s Store c1920
Beale family photo
Goldie Mae Underwood Boulds and J.T. Brock
Jackie U. Saunders photo
Moore children in front of their home in Chuckatuck c1925
House still standing in 2025 to the left of the post office
Moore family photo
Chapman family - Front - Sonny, Edith
Rear - Novella, Dotty, Rosser on porch of home in Chuckatuck c1948
Bradshaw collection
C.H. Pitt - 90th birthday party - 1958
Mary J. Bush collection
Charles Johnson in front yard 1946
Notice Pitt Store, Johnson’s Store and Gwaltney’s Store in background
Johnson family photo
Dailey family picnic in Chuckatuck - Memorial Day 1950
Dailey family photo
Charlie Johnson on a pony in Johnson's front yard - 1938
Notice Johnson’s Store and Gwaltney’s Store in background.
Johnson family photo
Ernest Winslow family c.1943
Front - Emily, Ernest and Betty
Second row - Millard, Marvin and Aleck
Rear - Pleasant (Polly), Jesse, Nina and Louis
1942
Winslow family photo
Chuckatuck friends -
Front - Evelyn Yeates, Jimmy Moore, Polly Johnson, Billy Moore, and Addie Rawls Moore Austin.
Rear - Polly and Florie Umphlette, Dwight Bradshaw, Susan Moore
Moore family photo
Sonny Chapman, Scott Saunders - seated
Audrey Newman, Maxine Gayle, Jean Dailey - standing
c1944 in Chuckatuck
Newman photo
Wesley Chapel kids (including Bradshaws, Hollands, Saunders, Johnsons) - c 1946
Bradshaw photo
Mills E. Godwin - Lt. Governor campaign 1961
left to right - Unknown, Charlie Johnson, Charles W. Darden, Mills E. Godwin, Jr. and J. Rosser Chapman
William Simpson photo
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Harvey Saunders, Jr. with his homemade airplane giving his brother Jerry a ride - 1942
Harvey Saunders photo
Hulda Kelly c1938
Janet K. Piland photo
Chuckatuck friends
Rear -Nancy and Charlotte Holland
Front - Butch Fronfelter and Judy Holland c1941
Fronfelter photo
John Kelly truck- General Hauling, with daughter Juanita Kelly c1949
Emma S. Kelly photo
Irene Pinner Knight in front of Dr. L. L. Eley’s house c1948
Janet Piland photo
Janet and Jack Knight c1947
Janet Knight Piland photo
John and Dorothy Bradshaw when John was in the Sea Bees- c1953
Bradshaw collection
Mr. Spady, Emma Mae Spady Kelly and Juanita Kelly in front of Spady house showing Chuckatuck intersection c1945
Emma S. Kelly collection
Frank A. Spady, Jr. - WWII bomber pilot
Spady family photo
War Ration Book - Carrie B. Saunders
Saunders family
Mount Ararat house in 1960 - built c1800
Located on Rt. 10 on Suffolk Scarp
Replaced with a brick house by Howard and Judith Gilliam Cobb
Judith Gilliam Cobb photo
Godwin-Knight House 1992
VA Dept. of Historic Resources photo
Last community postmark for Chuckatuck - 1974
Lynn Rose collection
Chuckatuck post offices, old and new
May 14, 1961 - Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
Billy Moore, Mills E. Godwin, Jr, Katherine Godwin, William M. Simpson, Dorothy C. Bradshaw, Shelton Dailey (seated), and J.R. Chapman at polls Race for the Senate of Virginia c1956.
Bradshaw family photo
Oreva Cain Dean on a trip through Chuckatuck - Fall 1940
Supplied by her son, Charles Dean
Fannie Pierce during freshman orientation at Chuckatuck High School - 1955
Notice Byrd’s Store in the background.
L. Rose photo
Mills E. Godwin, Jr. and W.G. Saunders, Jr. - 1961 - at dedication of new Chuckatuck post office
Saunders family collection
Kathryn Pinner Barbee of Chuckatuck holding John Rose with Rusty Rose in the foreground in 1971. She had made the afghan blanket in her lap for John. She was living upstairs in the Minton house at Everets at the time.
L. Rose photo
L. Rose photo
Left to right - Godwin, Norfleet, Willoughby, Saunders homes c1960
L. Rose photo
State marker for Chuckatuck. This marker was destroyed by an automobile in 1990. It was replaced with a new marker in 2024 through the hard work of Drexel Bradshaw.
Mr. Christensen of Chuckatuck builds model ships
May 1954 Virginian-Pilot
Chuckatuck Grist Mill without water wheel - 1960s
L. Rose photo
Area below water wheel leading to Chuckatuck Creek - 1960s
L. Rose photo
Meadow Lot and previous home of J. R. Chapman - 1995
Lynn K. Rose photo
Spady House built early 1800s and the Wilson Spady store in the fall of 1995
Lynn Rose photo
Front of book of tickets for Nick Wright bridge - Nansemond Bridge Corporation
Wright family
Hinshaw map showing southern Virginia quaker area - Hinshaw map
Kings Highway bridge from Chuckatuck side of Nansemond Riiver
Bradshaw family photo
Kings Highway Bridge from Chuckatuck side of Nansemond River
Bradshaw collection
Kings Highway Bridge with snow
Bradshaw photo
Ferry Point Farm when owned by the Nick Wright family
Wright family photo
Ferry Point Farm home -
Wright family photo
Overview of Ferry Point farm
Chuckatuck kids - circa 1953-54 - including Bradshaws, Saunders, Moores, Norfleet
Moore family photo
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Bradshaw family photo
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Ribbon cutting for the James River Bridge
Miss Chuckatuck - Dorothy Moore - 2nd from right
with Harry Byrd
Moore family photo
First automobile wreck in Nansemond County
Gilliam homes in the snow - 1956
Gilliam family photo
Gilliam home with Miss Patty’s home in background - 1956
Gilliam family photo
Richard and Annie Gilliam’s home built in 1898
Gilliam family photo
Richard and Annie Gilliam’s home built in 1898
Gilliam family photo
Margaret Smiley, Mildred and Leah Godwin, and Nancy Ray Gilliam
Gilliam family photo
Mr. Gilliam
Gilliam family photo
Ray and Dot Gilliam - married 1916
Gilliam family photo
Mr. Gilliam - top left - with his fraternity brothers at William and Mary.
Gilliam family photo
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Mrs. Mary Byrd and sons
Miss Patty - house keeper for the Gilliam family
Gilliam family photo
Mrs. Ray Gilliam being honored for over 40 years as a Sunday School teacher at Wesley Chapel Methodist Church - 1962
l to r - Mr. Gilliam, Mrs. Gilliam
Gilliam family photo
Frances Gilliam, , Addie Rawles Moore and Dick Woodward at the marl hole
Gilliam family photo
Nancy Gilliam Lambdin swimming in the marl hole!
Gilliam family photo
Judy Franco and Jo Lambdin diving at the marl hole
Gilliam Family photo
Nancy Gilliam and others at the marl hole
Gilliam family photo
Marl pit in late 1950s
Gilliam family photo
Joe and Tripper at the marl pit
Gilliam family photo
Marl pit in the snow - 1980
Gilliam family photo
Marl pit in the snow - 1980
Base of new dam for Chuckatuck Mill Pond
Chuckatuck mill pond after dam broke
Chuckatuck mill pond after dam broke
Mr. Doyle’s house across from the Grist Mill. Mr. Doyle was the miller.
New dam under construction for the Chuckatuck mill pond
Part of the original dam for Crump’s Mill Pond
Marjorie Mathews Creekmore - 2011
Al Glasscock’s farm with fields and barns - 1995
L. Rose photo
Isaac Blough - Master wood craftsman - c1973
Sawyer at Kirk Lumber Company
L. Rose photo
Road damage to Rt. 10 in Chuckatuck due to Hurricane Floyd - 3-23-1999
Ronnie Kelly and Charles Rose on the left with their backs to the camera.
L. Rose photo
Temporary stop light on Route 10 at grist mill following Hurricane Floyd - 3-23-1999
L. Rose photo
Portable bridge arriving in Chuckatuck to repair Route 10 following hurricane Floyd - 3-23-1999
L. Rose photo
Virginia Chambers, Lois Hamlin and Melvin Diggs
Poll workers in 1990
L. Rose photo
Flags along Kings Highway - July 4, 2008
L. Rose photo
Geneva Kenny and Melvin Diggs at Chuckatuck voting precinct 1990
L. Rose photo
Ozzie Porter and Harvey Saunders - poll workers in 1990
L. Rose photo
Suzanne Myers Saunders, Brenda Gayle Wright and Lynn Kirk Rose - Poll workers - 1990
L. Rose photo
Marjorie Mathews Creekmore and Hazel Dailey Delk, childhood friends, selecting photos for Chuckatuck history project - 2011
Flags flying in Chuckatuck for July 4th, 2003.
A patriotic Boy Scout project by Cody Brandon of Chuckatuck Troop 25.
L. Rose photo
Saunders Supply under EPA ruling for restoration of area affected by Kepone
Lisa Glasscock
Song about growing up in Chuckatuck
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