
Original Corbell plantation home on Crooked Creek Farm
Original J.D. Corbell plantation home on Crooked Creek Farm; built 1760
Burned around 1890
Nancy Pruden photo

Corbell men
Roy Pope photo

J.J. Philips of Chuckatuck and New York

Annie Powell Pope - circa 1900-1905
Pope family photo

Sandy Bottom Leaders
Sandy Bottom leaders - Mr. Emmitt Hall, Mr. Irvey Lyons, Mr. Whitman Hicks, Mr.John Wesley Wilson, Mr.Jesse G. Pittman, Mr. Henry Chance, Mr. Walter Jordan.

Pruden Farm 1930's
Stanley and Ethel Pruden (3rd and 4th from left) with children Vernell and Wilson holding puppies in front - c1935
Deborah P. Powell photo

Early Landowners 1915 photo
Virginia Corbell Cotten, David Corbell Cotten, Claire Cotton, c1915 - early landowners
Leroy Pope photo

Whitman Hicks
Whitman Hicks, Veteran of World War 1 and Oysterman.
Raine family photo

Early Landowner
Wiliam Ferdinand Cotten

Willie Mann of Sandy Bottom
Willie Mann of Sandy Bottom
Mann family photo


Connie Newman

Mr and Mrs Oliver Newman
Mr. & Mrs. Oliver Newman
Newman family farm adjoined the Cotton farm on the Chuckatuck Creek
Newman family photo

Oliver Newman House
Oliver Newman home
Newman family photo

Gladys Newman's yard
Gladys Newman’s flower beds. Mrs. Newmanwas known for green thumb and a beautiful yard.


Buddy Newman
Buddy Newman with cow on Newman farm
Newman family photo

Newman Family
Newman family members - l to r - Buddy, Oliver,
Newman family photo

Lady sitting on basket of potatoes - 1937
Lona Dailey McKinley photo


Dailey’s Store with Dailey and Thompson family on porch - c 1919
Left to right - Young Ruth Thompson, Helen Dailey, W.C. Dailey, Jr., Michael Gordon Dailey, Theodore Thompson, Ruth Thompson (Dick Thompson’s wife from Philadelphia) standing leaning on the post.
(Georgia Thompson Dailey’s father had remarried and had 6 more children. When he died, Georgia raised Theodore and Ruth. Cora (Hazel’s mom) took the other four.)
Lona McKinley photo

Four people in cornfield
Lona Dailey McKinley photo

Philip Dailey and - 1937
Dailey family photo

Dailey family in cart 7-1919
L - R
Ruth Thompson (Dick’s wife from Phil., Georgia’s stepsister)
Helen Dailey
?
Theodore Thompson holding cart ( Georgia’s stepbrother), W.C. Dailey, Jr.
Picture taken by Christopher Columbus (Dick) Thompson from Philadelphia, brother to Georgia Thompson Dailey
Lona D. McKinley photo

Lady from Sandy Bottom

W.C. Dailey deed







Philip Dailey - CHS vocational agriculture practice account - 1938, 1939
Lona Dailey collection

Pages from Philip Dailey’s Vocational Agriculture practice book, 1937 & 1938 - Chuckatuck High School
Lona Dailey

James and John Melton “Mutt” Dailey - 1940 Chuckatuck High School baseball players
Lona Dailey McKinley photo

John Melton “Mutt” Dailey standing by C.H. Pitt’s truck
Dailey Family photo

John Henry and Cora Thompson Dailey 1943
Dailey family photo

Dailey children in field - 1919
Lona D. McKinley photo

Dailey Family
Dailey family photo

Dailey family members - John standing, John Melton, Cora holding Hazel, William Shelton, James Woodrow, WC, Helen, Louise, Teddy standing left. In rocking chair is Ann Mildred, right chair Georgia.
Dailey family photo

Lady and two children in automobile. Ruth?
Dailey/Lona McKinley photo

Dailey family member with chickens and cat
Lona Dailey McKinley photo


Early picture of unknown on early Dailey’s Store (?) porch
Lona McKinley photo

Stanley Pruden
Stanley Pruden, father of Wilson Pruden
Sandy Bottom farmer
Pruden family photo

Hazel Dailey Delk
Dailey family photo

Chuckatuck High School teachers

State highway chart showing landowners in Sandy Bottom

State highway diagram for widening of road through Sandy Bottom

State highway drawings showing ownership of land along highway in Sandy Bottom.

State highway drawings showing widening of road through Sandy Bottom

State highway information on land ownership in Sandy Bottom


State highway info on land ownership along highway in Sandy Bottom.

Info on land ownership along highway through Sandy Bottom.

Entrance to the Briar Farm lane where the Rippeys, Raines and Wolfords lived.
Raine family photo

Road to Briar Farm near Sandy Bottom
Raine family photo

Lane to the Briar Farm near Sandy Bottom
Raine family photo

Chuckatuck High School
Katey Rippey, Barrett and Marion Ingersoll
Chuckatuck High School friends
Katie Rippey photo


Catherine Rippey Hager, Howard “Duck” Taylor, Polkey Woolford, George Hicks of Sandy Bottom
c1999
Raine family photo

April 4, 1939
Shack Raine, Nancy Lewis Darden, Austin Darden, Polkey Woolford, Cabel Birdsong, Marion Clark Wilkerson, Katherine Rippey, Asa Johnson, Polly Johnson, Billy Birdsong.
Friends gathered at the Briar Farm on Nansemond River near Sandy Bottom.
Raine family photo

Bill and Mildred Rippey, c1953
Mr. Rippey was the agricultural teacher at Chuckatuck High School.

Marion Taylor Randall
Marion Taylor Randall, beloved cook and child care provider.
In Raine kitchen
Raine family photo

The old swimming hole

Raine House on Briar Farm

Marion Taylor Randall
Marion Taylor Randall of Sandy Bottom
Raine family photo

Woolford House
Woolford house off of Ferry Point Road.
Visible to the right is a cove of the Nansemond River where baptisms were held by various churches in the area.
Woolford family photo



Elwood and Pearl Pruden in front of their home 1918 - Father of Marvin and Grandparents of Nancy and Terry Pruden
Nancy Pruden photo

Kitchen to J.D. Corbell house on Crooked Creek Farm. Later Old Kitchen Antiques location
Pruden family photo

Leona Pruden in front of Old Kitchen Antiques
Article about Old Kitchen Antiques
Pruden family article

Inside of Old Kitchen Antiques 1960
Pruden family photo

Old Corbell kitchen on Crooked Creek Farm 1990 - built c 1760
Nancy Pruden photo

Information on old kitchen on Pruden farm
Pruden family information


1901 deed of sale to Henry Pruden (Nancy’s great, great-grandfather)
Pruden family article



1901 Pruden deed



Jesse P. Pittman with his mule - Virginian Pilot photo
Mattie Rawls

Corbell Cotton home - Cypress Vale on Cotton Farm Lane
Roy Pope photo

Dailey Family - 1950 Memorial Day gathering
Notice Ice cream freezers on the wagon.
Dailey family photo

W.C. Dailey far left, Georgia far right, Jean in front, Shelly, Louise and Phillip with Teddy Thompson and wife.
Dailey family photo

Plummie Diggs Hicks

Leona Pruden and son Terry Pruden, c1948
Pruden family photo

Marvin Lee Pruden and son Terry in front of homeplace - 1948
Pruden family photo

Marvin Pruden with daughter Nancy and mother Pearl 1961
Pruden family photo

Pruden Home place on Crooked Creek Farm
Marvin Pruden's house (c1915) and carriage house (c1760) on Crooked Creek Farm
Pruden family photo

The Warren family, who grew up on Crooked Creek Farm with Terry Pruden on Crooked Creek Farm - 1991
Nancy Pruden photo

Stanley and Ethel Pruden Pruden
Pruden family photo

Leona Pruden with Terry and Deborah Pruden
c1952
Nancy Pruden photo

Wilson Pruden
Wilson Pruden checking crops on his farm.
Pruden family photo

Wilson Pruden
Wilson Pruden on his farm - Sandy Bottom
(Wilson was the father of Betsy and Deborah Pruden)
Pruden family photo

Wilson Pruden home - Sandy Bottom
Bought and remodeled by Louis and Debbie Waters.
Nancy Pruden photo

Wilson, Stanley and Ethel Pruden
Pruden family photo

Ruth Pruden with daughter Deborah 8/1954
Deborah Pruden family photo

Mrs. Ruth Darden
Mrs. Ruth Darden, teacher at Sandy Bottom School.

Diamond Grove Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, formerly Sandy Bottom School
Diamond Grove Baptist Church Fellowship Hall 2011, formerly Sandy Bottom School
Beverly Whitley photo


Former student at Sandy Bottom School, Doria Mitchell, with her teacher, Mrs. Monger Lawrence.


Theodore Allen family
T. Allen photo


Chapman's Store

John Randall

Rabbit Hunt
The Chapman family and friends after a Sandy Bottom rabbit hunt
Standing - Marvin Pruden, Wayne Chapman
Gib Chapman photo

Early picture of Chapman’s Store in Sandy Bottom
John Bradshaw standing in front
Bradshaw family photo

Nansemond Marine
Site of Chapman’s Store

Sam Chapman
Chapman’s Store in Sandy Bottom with Sam Chapman standing in front
Chapman family photo

Chapman house

John Odom
John “Johnny Pine” Odom in front of Nansemond Marine
Chapman family photo

Katie Hurst in the Ginch shop, owned and operated by Jane Youngk - located in Sam Chapman’s store for about two years.

Nansemond Marine business in Sandy Bottom: run by Gib Chapman
Chapman family photo


Nansemond Marine in Sandy Bottom
Chapman family photo

Shed behind Dailey’s Store
L. Rose photo

W.C. Dailey's House
Early picture of Dailey house next to the store in Sandy Bottom.
Lona Dailey family photo

Dailey's Store
Dailey’s Store after it closed

Dailey's Store
Dailey’s Store

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Early home in Sandy Bottom. Located near Dailey’s Store. Photo taken in 2020
L. Rose photo

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Nansemond Marine formerly Chapman’s Store

Dailey’s Store - Sandy Bottom

Dailey's Store
Dailey ‘s store was directly across the road from Chapman’s store in Sandy Bottom



Dailey's Store
Lot’s of stored cheese boxes in Dailey’s Store following closing.1989
Dailey family photo

Interior of Dailey's Store
Steps up to a Dailey’s Store storage area. For years this space housed several different families.
Dailey Family photo

Dailey's Store
Inside of Dailey’s Store
Dailey family photo

Dailey's store
Interior of Dailey’s Store following closing - cash register, etc.
Dailey family photo

Dailey's store
Dailey’s Store scales - after it closed
Dailey family photo

Dailey’s Store equipment.
Dailey family photo

Dailey’s Store side shelves after close.
Dailey family photo

Dailey's store
Dailey’s Store - Sandy Bottom
Dailey family phpoto

Dailey's store
Pot belly stove in W. C. Dailey’s Store, Sandy Bottom
Dailey Family photo

Diamond Way Store c1955
Diamond Way Service Station and Store owned and operated by James Lee Diggs, c1955. Land was purchased in June 1944. The store was built between 1945 and 1950 and was open from Monday to Sunday. It offered food, Sinclair gas, and a barbershop.
He had seven children who all helped run the store. They never had to worry about having paper and pencils!
Mary Diggs Brown photo

James Lee Diggs in his Diamond Way Store, Sandy Bottom c1964
Mary Diggs Brown photo

James Lee and Lilian Alice Diggs of Sandy Bottom
Mary Diggs Brown photo

James Lee Diggs and Lilian Alice Reedes Diggs of Sandy Bottom. Parents of Mary Diggs Brown
Mary Diggs Brown photo

Sam and Evelyn Chapman
Sam and Evelyn Chapman














Diamond Grove Baptist Church, Sandy Bottom, VA
Beverly Whitley photo






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W.G. & Elsie Copeland’s home on Cotton Farm Lane. Torn down in 2024
Lynn Rose photo
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Corbell house on Cotton Farm Lane
Photo by Lynn Rose


































































































































































