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Everets Photo Gallery

 Martin home on the western branch of the Nansemond River near Everets.  Atlee Martin (?) holding reins on the left
 Martin home on the western branch of the Nansemond River near Everets.  Atlee Martin (?) holding reins on the left

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

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 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 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

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

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

A view of the western branch of the Nansemond River from Martin home.

Martin family photo

 Mary, Earl and Atlee Martin  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

View of Atlee Martin's home place from Dudley Saunders’ place across Western Branch Reservoir.

L. Rose photo

Atlee Martin Home

Atlee Martin Home

Martin home on the western branch of the Nansemond River.

Martin family photo

 Martin home - c2020  Martin family photo

Martin home - c2020

Martin family photo

 Martin’s Store at Everets. Earlier Wagner’s Store  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’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

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. Warehou

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

July 1888 store ledger from Wagner’s Store

 Martin’s Store at Everets - 1950s  Newspaper photo

Martin’s Store at Everets - 1950s

Newspaper photo

 Mr. Atlee Martin, owner of Martin’s store at Everets  Martin family 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

Martin’s Store at Everets with Mrs. Mary Martin on porch with a friend - 1950s

Martin family photo

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 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

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

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

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 see

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

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

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

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.

Dam near Brooklyn Pruden’s for overflow of water from Isle of Wight County into Everets Creek.

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 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

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

Margaretta Godwin Kirk and her husband, John J. Kirk, on their honeymoon trip to see his parents in Pennsylvania in 1875.
Kirk Family photo

The Chuckatuck Progressive Euchre Club and Mrs. John J. Kirk of Everets (The Norfolk Virginian, 5 Feb 1896, Image 1 of 2).jpg

The Chuckatuck Progressive Euchre Club and Mrs. John J. Kirk of Everets (The Norfolk Virginian, 5 Feb 1896, Image 1 of 2).jpg

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 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

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 Eve

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

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

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 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

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

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 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 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

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 Kirk Lumber Company workers - 1934 Kirk Lumber Company photo

Kirk Lumber Company workers - 1934
Kirk Lumber Company photo

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 Jeff Gibson, Kirk Lumber Company truck driver, with a large load!  Kirk Lumber Company photo

Jeff Gibson, Kirk Lumber Company truck driver, with a large load!

Kirk Lumber Company photo

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                 Doughtie loading Kirk Lumber Company with Cat 22 - 1938  Kirk Lumber Co. photo

Doughtie loading Kirk Lumber Company with Cat 22 - 1938

Kirk Lumber Co. photo

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 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 t

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

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

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

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 Mildred Schram Dailey, Lizzie Cotton Schram, Harry H. Schram and Eunice Schram at Minton home place - Everets 1935   Eunice S. Woolford photo

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

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

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 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 l

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

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

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

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 Marti

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

Lake Burnt Mills dam looking from spillway to Martin’s Store - c1960

Morgan family photo

The Stephen Saunders' family

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 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

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

Newspaper article featuring Dudley F. Saunders. 1961

Kirk family collection

T.J. Saunders, Jr. and family

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

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T.J. Saunders' home at Everets

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
Picture taken from Wagner home

Alton Wagner photo

 Horses on Russell’s hill - Everets, VA c1950s   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

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

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

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

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 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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 -.

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 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

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 wa

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

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 d

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

Pretlow family - Josh, Betty, Pret, Anne, Kirk and Jennie - 1956

 Betty Cross Pretlow

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

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

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

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

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.

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).

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

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 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.

Home of Stokes and Margaret Kirk at Everets before the formation of Western Branch Reservoir in 1962.

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Kirk Lumber Company

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

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.

Changes to Everets after Western Branch dam at Reids Ferry.

 Arlie Griffin home on Everets Road  Lynn Rose photo

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.

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

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

Water reservoir behind Kirk Lumber Compony boiler room. Notice stem in rear. 1950s

Alton Wagner photo

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 Cargill Family at St. John’s Episcopal Church when John Cargill was recognized for years of service to the church.  Lynn Rose 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Martin home on the western branch of the Nansemond River near Everets.  Atlee Martin (?) holding reins on the left
Mr. & Mrs. Atlee Martin
 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.
 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 - 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. Warehou
 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
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 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
 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 see
 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.
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 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
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
 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 Eve
 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.
 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
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 Kirk Lumber Company workers - 1934 Kirk Lumber Company photo
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 Jeff Gibson, Kirk Lumber Company truck driver, with a large load!  Kirk Lumber Company photo
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                 Doughtie loading Kirk Lumber Company with Cat 22 - 1938  Kirk Lumber Co. photo
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 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 t
 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
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 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
 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 l
 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
 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 Marti
 Lake Burnt Mills dam looking from spillway to Martin’s Store - c1960  Morgan family photo
The Stephen Saunders' family
 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
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T.J. Saunders' home at Everets
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 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
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 Report card for W.G. Saunders, Jr. at Everets School  Saunders’ family photo
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 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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 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 -.
 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 wa
 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 d
 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.
 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.
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Kirk Lumber Company
 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
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 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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Griffin house  on Longview Drive near Everets
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