Martin home on the western branch of the Nansemond River near Everets.
Atlee Martin (?) holding reins on the left
Mr. & Mrs. Atlee Martin
Mr. & Mrs. Atlee Martin on their farm on the western branch of the Nansemond River. Notice the muskrat traps.
Martin family photo
Atlee Martin at his farm on the western branch of the Nansemond River.
Martin family photo
Atlee Martin overlooking Western Branch of Nansemond River from his farm.
Atlee Martin overlooking the western branch of the Nansemond River behind his home. The western branch was dammed up to form the western branch reservoir for the city of Norfolk in 1962.
Martin family photo
Mary Martin with family pets behind Martin home.
Martin family photo
Left to right - Polly Hall, Bessie, Opal and Sarah Wallace Wooden - Hog killing at Atlee Martin’s - January 16, 1942
Martin family photo
A view of the western branch of the Nansemond River from Martin home.
Martin family photo
Mary, Earl and Atlee Martin
Martin family photo
View of Atlee Martin's home place from Dudley Saunders’ place across Western Branch Reservoir.
L. Rose photo
Atlee Martin Home
Martin home on the western branch of the Nansemond River.
Martin family photo
Martin home - c2020
Martin family photo
Martin’s Store at Everets. Earlier Wagner’s Store
Martin family photo
Martin’s Store during a northeaster in 1961 with Alfred Russell home at top of hill.
Kirk family photo
Martin family coat of arms
Martin family information
Looking east from the bottom of Saunders/Chambers hill at Everets. This hill made a sharp turn to the left and then climbed steeply. Dangerous for sledding! The Kas Wagner home was located to the left; Wagner’s Store is shown straight ahead. Warehouses at the Everets’ wharf are shown to the left of the store. The two-story building was the Kirk cotton gin located across the bridge. c1940
Wagner family photo
July 1888 store ledger from Wagner’s Store
Martin’s Store at Everets - 1950s
Newspaper photo
Mr. Atlee Martin, owner of Martin’s store at Everets
Martin family photo
Martin’s Store at Everets with Mrs. Mary Martin on porch with a friend - 1950s
Martin family photo
Sale notice for Martin’s Store - 1939. This store was located on the east side of the bridge at Everets. His son, Atlee Martin, later ran the former Wagner store on the west side of the bridge below the T.J. Saunders home.
Martin family photo
1907 - Everets Bridge
W.G. Saunders, III, with his mother in front of the bridge at Everets. Saunders family members are standing on the bridge.
Notice the gears under the bridge. The key used to turn the gears and open the bridge is located in the former Kirk Lumber Co. office.
Saunders’ family photo
Key to early Everets bridge
Photo Lynn Rose
The picture was taken in approximately 1914 from a bridge or warehouse on the west side of Everets Creek, which was then the property of T. J. Saunders. Shows J.J. Kirk's warehouse to the left of the boats. The warehouse was used after 1924 as a seed house for cotton seeds from the cotton gin. The Ocean Star was captained and owned by Capt. John Martin of Eclipse. He was the grandfather of Alease N. Hazelwood and Everett Newman. John Martin also owned the Bertha May which loaded at Everets. The Eva W. was owned and operated by Eddie Wagner of Everets. The Mary Ann, sharp at both ends, was owned and operated by Ralph Saunders. Ralph’s boat operated out of Everets from about 1914 to 1925.
Loading melons at Everets wharf.
The house in the background was built by W. G. Saunders.
Mary Saunders Latimer photo
Envelope postmarked at Everets, VA 11-3-1892
Miss Mary Lawrence was the niece of Mrs. Margaretta Godwin Kirk. She was attending school in Suffolk. Mary Lawrence’s home was at Cotton Plains on the Chuckatuck Creek.
Kirk family
Mr. and Mrs. Kea. They lived on Quaker Drive near the Prudens. They operated a small store where items for sale were most often in small paper sacks.
Pruden family photo
Dam near Brooklyn Pruden’s for overflow of water from Isle of Wight County into Everets Creek.
1920s view of the bridge at Everets showing a warehouse and Wagner’s Store
Picture taken from “The History of Nansemond County” by Joseph B. Dunn 1907
Margaretta Godwin Kirk and her husband, John J. Kirk, on their honeymoon trip to see his parents in Pennsylvania in 1875.
Kirk Family photo
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The Chuckatuck Progressive Euchre Club and Mrs. John J. Kirk of Everets (The Norfolk Virginian, 5 Feb 1896, Image 1 of 2).jpg
Kirk and Lawrence family on front porch of Kirk house at Everets.
John J. Kirk - seated on steps to left
Russell Kirk - young boy - standing
Kirk family photo
Kirk House
Kirk house at Everets 1890. Notice the smokestack for the early Kirk Company to the left of the porch. The sawmill was located there before being rebuilt across from Kirk house.
Kirk family photo
Claude , Miss Susie Gilliam*, Mr. Jim Causey, Miss Birdie Crump, Miss Mamie Cook*, Mrs. Elizabeth Kirk Brady - c1897
*Miss Gilliam and Miss Cook were teachers.
Schooner Windfrey was docked at a warehouse in Western Branch Creek at Everets. The picture was taken by William S. Kirk who was visiting from Philadelphia.
Merle Kirk in the boat the family used for traveling between Everets and the family’s former home in Port Norfolk.
Kirk Family photo
J. R. Kirk (on left) sawing logs in Kirk Company sawmill - 1930s
Kirk family photo
Kirk Co. office and cotton gin. Gin was located along side Everets Creek. Bridge was to the right of the gin.
Kirk Co. office and cotton gin. Gin was located behind and parallel to Everets Creek.
The office was moved to the later location of Kirk Lumber Company and was still in use in 2025.
Kirk Family photo
Various Kirk letter heads
1925 - Kirk Lumber Company fleet with the mill in the background. The area beside the trucks was the road.
Kirk Lumber Company photo
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Kirk Lumber company trucks with JRK
Kirk Lumber Company fleet with the Kirk home in the background. 1925/26
The sawmill was to the fleet's right as shown in this photo.
Kirk Lumber Company photo
Kirk Lumber Company workers - 1934
Kirk Lumber Company photo
Jeff Gibson, Kirk Lumber Company truck driver, with a large load!
Kirk Lumber Company photo
Doughtie loading Kirk Lumber Company with Cat 22 - 1938
Kirk Lumber Co. photo
A view of the Kirk Lumber Company log deck from the water tower. Notice the boom which unload the log from trucks and placed the logs in the sawmill. In the upper left you can see the dam built to hold water for use to run two steam run generators to produce power and to run the carriage.
Kirk Lumber Company photo
John Kirk, Celia Wagner, Eloise Morgan, Lynn Kirk at Lynn’s 2nd birthday party, January 1943,
in front of Kirk home at Everets. Doll made by Merle Kirk.
Lynn Rose photo
Kirk and Pretlow family - Christmas 1951
Back row - Joshua Pretlow, J. Stokes Kirk, Merle A. Kirk, Russell Kirk, Dr. Arthur A. Kirk
Kirk family photo taken by Alton Wagner
Mildred Schram Dailey, Lizzie Cotton Schram, Harry H. Schram and Eunice Schram at Minton home place - Everets 1935
Eunice S. Woolford photo
Minton Farm showing tenant house and orchard on left, equipment shelter, storage barn, home (behind the trees), hip on hip type horse barn, corn crib.
Kirk family photo
Moving the Pretlow house across the highway before the damming of Western Branch Reservoir in 1962 to form a lake for the Norfolk water supply. Stoney Landing field is in the background, and Stephen Saunders’ home (or outbuilding) can be seen in the distance. The house was relocated up the hill in front of the Minton house and then across the field to its current location in 2025. The house was later added to and bricked.
Arthur and Stokes Kirk following a successful hunting trip at Everets.
Kirk family photo
Arthur A. Kirk when he graduated from Chuckatuck High School in 1933
Looking across Everets Creek from the Kirk house. Note the cotton gin to the left, the bridge, and Wagner’s store in the center. Rufus Martin’s store is to the right. J. R. Kirk later bought and ran the Rufus Martin store for a short while.
Kirk family photo
Dr. Arthur A. Kirk - raised at Everets. Born in Port Norfolk. 1991
Kirk family photo
Aerial view of Kirk Lumber Company c1950. Taken before the formation of the Western Branch Reservoir. To the right of the highway, you can see the garden for the Morgan or Worrell family. (I don’t remember who lived there at the time.) The home was beyond the trees and situated across from the Kirk home. The Pretlow home is visible at the top of the picture.
Kirk family photo
Osmond Lee, Marvin Morrison, Alice Lee and Susie Griffin Underwood at Griffin home near Everets - 1911
Jackie Underwood Saunders photo
View of Everets Creek from the side yard of W. G. Saunders’ home at Everets. Later the home of W. C. Morgan and family.
The two-story building in the background was J. R. Kirk’s cotton gin. The flat-top building was a store operated by Rufus Martin, William Baker and later owned by J. R. Kirk.
Lake Burnt Mills dam looking from spillway to Martin’s Store - c1960
Morgan family photo
The Stephen Saunders' family
The Stephen Saunders’ family. They lived on a farm on the western branch of the Nansemond River near Everets. Farm was located almost directly and beyond the Stoney Landing farm at Everets.
Saunders family photo
Stephen and Mary Gayle Saunders - late 1800s
Saunders’ family photo
Stephen and Sally Martin Saunders in front of their home on the western branch of the Nansemond River near Everets - 1928 - with two grandchildren, including Gordon
Stephen Saunders’ family photo
Newspaper article featuring Dudley F. Saunders. 1961
Kirk family collection
T.J. Saunders, Jr. and family
Thomas Jefferson Saunders, Jr. and family at Everets home
1914/1915
Front left-to-right:
Thomas III, Thomas J. (father), Fitzhugh, Grandma Brittain, “Little” Parke Deans (son of Lucy), Molly Saunders (mother)
Second row:
(siblings of Thomas III and Fitzhugh) Gertrude, Calvin, Mary, Frederick, Irma, Nicholas, Ralph, Lucy
Mary Saunders Latimer photo
T.J. Saunders' home at Everets
T. J. Saunders, Jr.’s home at Everets. Notice the steep hill! Great for sledding! c. 1910
Saunders family photo
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Front view of T.J. Saunders, Jr.’s home at Everets
Saunders family photo
Thomas J. Saunders, III
Mary S. Latimer photo
T.J. Saunders, Jr. standing in his family’s yard at Everets with the schoolhouse in the background.
Saunders family photo
Students at Everets School, c1914
Front - second from left - Evelyn Saunders
far right - Peggy Pruden
Rear - second from left - W.G. Saunders, Jr.
Third from left - Pruden ?
One boy was a brother to Ruby Edwards Gwaltney, and another was thought to be Jacobson Pruden.
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Thomas J. Saunders, III at Everets
Saunders family photo
Report card for W.G. Saunders, Jr. at Everets School
Saunders’ family photo
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Miss Myrtie Powell ( m. Daughtrey)
Dressed for teaching at Everets Bridge School
Daughtrey family photo
Everets’ home of Alfred and Emma Russell from 1948-1986
Original home of Thomas J. Saunders.
Russell family photo
Home of Alfred and Emma Russell
Picture taken about 1950
They lived at Everets from 1948 to 1986 in the original T. J. Saunders, Jr. home.
Russell family photo
Horses on Russell’s hill - Everets, VA c1950s
Picture taken from Wagner home
Alton Wagner photo
Horses on Russell’s hill - Everets, VA c1950s
Alton Wagner photo
Flooding at Everets from high water in western branch of the Nansemond River
Wagner family photo
W. Kasper “Kass” Wagner, Edward “Ed” Wagner, and Robert “Bob” Wagner - All members of the Chuckatuck Masonic Lodge, c1950. The Wagners lived at Everets and the Milners area. Once lived in Isle of Wight County on
Wagner family photo
Wagner family home at Everets.
Celia Wagner Coughlin photo
Photo taken from Wagner home at Everets showing early Martin’s Store top left, bridge and warehouse plus Wagner’s Store on top right.
Celia Wagner Coughlin photo
Wagner home at Everets
Celia Wagner Coughlin photo
Wagner family home at Everets. Lake Burnt Mill dam is shown on the top left. After 1944.
Celia Wagner Coughlin photo
Photo taken from the Wagner home at Everets showing a storage building behind Wagner’s Store and a local school bus.
Celia Wagner Coughlin photo
We’re indebted to Celia’s father, Alton, who took many pictures of the area.
Looking west at Everets to Wagner home.
Celia Wagner Coughlin photo
Saunders‘ hillside and road prior to damming of the western branch of the Nansemond River (Everets Creek) in 1962. Taken from Wagner home.
Wagner family photo
Lake Burnt Mill pump house located behind the Wagner home at Everets. The Lake Burnt Mill dam is located behind the pump house. 1950s
Wagner family photo
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Dam at Lake Burnt Mills overflowing for the first time since dam being complete in 1944.
Wagner backyard looking towards Burnt Mill Dam at Everets. 1940s?
Celia Wagner Coughlin photo
Building of the Lake Burnt Mill dam at Everets c1941.
Alton Wagner photo
Pipe work for Lake Burnt Mill at Everets c1940
Alton Wagner photo
Part of Everets Creek behind the Wagner home during the construction of Lake Burnt Mill. c1941
Celia Wagner Coughlin photo
Crane building Lake Burnt Mills dam at Everets - c1941.
Alton Wagner photo.
Looking east toward bridge at Everets from the Wagner home.
Alton Wagner family photo
Celia Wagner fishing on a branch of Everets Creek behind her home. Brady house on Kirk Road is in the background. 1950s
Alton Wagner/Celia Coughlin photo
Spillway of Lake Burnt Mill at Everets. Looking towards Morgan’s house - late 1940s
Alton Wagner photo
Lake Burnt Mills spillway before the damming of the western branch of the Nansemond River by Norfolk -
late 1940s
Alton Wagner photo
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Looking towards the Everets bridge from the top of the Lake Burnt Mills dam, behind Wagner's home. c1955
Alton Wagner photo
Looking towards the Everets bridge from the Wagner property. The creek at this time was very narrow and shallow. c1955
Alton Wagner photo
View of dam/road construction at Everets 1962 looking west. Shown at the top left of the picture is the recreation room and home of Alfred and Emma Russell. Martin’s store is below. Bridge building was underway. The store was torn down before the water was much higher.
Alton Wagner photo
Billy Whitley and Lew Morris after an excellent fishing trip - 1958
Norfolk-Virginian Pilot newspaper
Lewis F. Morris and William L. Whitley boating in flood waters of Everets Creek (western branch of the Nansemond River) during a northeaster. Home of Russell and Merle Kirk in the background. Prior to the completion of the Western Branch reservoir dam in 1962
L. Rose photo
Pretlow family - Josh, Betty, Pret, Anne, Kirk and Jennie - 1956
Betty Cross Pretlow
Willie Robinson and J. Stokes Kirk of Kirk Lumber Company planting pine tree # 1,000,001 for reforestation in 1969.
Kirk family photo
Overview of Kirk Lumber Company at Everets. Everets Creek is shown on the top right.
Kirk family photo
Pipes between Kirk mill pond and Western Branch reservoir dislodged by higher water in Kirk pond at Everets - c1963
Alton Wagner photo
View showing highway under construction at Everets. Alfred Russell home is shown in far distance. c1963
Everets 1961 - Prior to flooding the western branch of the Nansemond River to form Western Branch Reservoir. Notice the bridge supports and Martin's Store prior to its demolition. Alton Wagner photo.
A view showing the construction of a bridge at Everets in 1962. Notice Martin’s store at its original location prior to demolishment.
Alton Wagner photo
Looking east at road building at Everets for Western Branch reservoir in 1962. Buildings in background are Kirk Lumber Company truck shelter, Kirk garage and J. R. Kirk home (hidden in trees).
Building the roadway and bridge at Everets in preparation for being flooded due to the building of the Western Branch dam at Reids Ferry.
Alton Wagner photo
Home of J. Russell and Merle A. Kirk at Everets before Western Branch Reservoir formation in 1962
Kirk family photo
Home of Stokes and Margaret Kirk at Everets before the formation of Western Branch Reservoir in 1962.
Kirk Lumber Company
Overview of Kirk Lumber Company
KLC photo
Water rising at Everets following damming of the western branch of the Nansemond River c1968
Kirk Family photo
Changes to Everets after Western Branch dam at Reids Ferry.
Arlie Griffin home on Everets Road
Lynn Rose photo
Christian Home Schoolhouse Museum in Smithfield. Originally located across from Christian Home Baptist Church on Longview Drive in Isle of Wight County near Everets.
Alton Wagner’s mechanic shop at Kirk Lumber Company before being flooded - 1950s
Alton Wagner photo
Water reservoir behind Kirk Lumber Compony boiler room. Notice stem in rear. 1950s
Alton Wagner photo
Cargill Family at St. John’s Episcopal Church when John Cargill was recognized for years of service to the church.
Lynn Rose photo
Joyner home on Everets Road in Isle of Wight County, 2011
L. Rose photo
John Cargill receiving recognition for years of service to St. John’s Episcopal Church.
L. Rose photo
Joyner home on Everets Road in Isle of Wight County near Everets.
Lynn Rose photo
B.J. Pruden home on Quaker Drive near Everets in Isle of Wight County, VA
circa 1770 and 1835
Pruden family photo
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Minton Farm at Everets showing rare hip on hip top barn and corn crib.
L. Rose photo
Griffin house on Longview Drive near Everets
Griffin house on Longview Drive near Everets.
Lost due to fire in 1975.
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Pruden family outbuildings
L. Rose photo
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Pruden House - 2005- Isle of Wight County
Pruden family photo