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Sandy Bottom Photo Gallery

Corbell Men

Original Corbell plantation home on Crooked Creek Farm
Original Corbell plantation home on Crooked Creek Farm

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

Corbell men

Roy Pope photo

 J.J. Philips of Chuckatuck and New York

J.J. Philips of Chuckatuck and New York

 Annie Powell Pope - circa 1900-1905  Pope family photo

Annie Powell Pope - circa 1900-1905

Pope family photo

Sandy Bottom Leaders

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

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

Early Landowners 1915 photo

Virginia Corbell Cotten, David Corbell Cotten, Claire Cotton, c1915 - early landowners

Leroy Pope photo

Whitman Hicks

Whitman Hicks

Whitman Hicks, Veteran of World War 1 and Oysterman.

Raine family photo

Early Landowner

Early Landowner

Wiliam Ferdinand Cotten

Willie Mann of Sandy Bottom

Willie Mann of Sandy Bottom

Willie Mann of Sandy Bottom

Mann family photo

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 Connie Newman

Connie Newman

Mr and Mrs Oliver 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 House

Oliver Newman home

Newman family photo

Gladys Newman's yard

Gladys Newman's yard

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

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Buddy Newman

Buddy Newman

Buddy Newman with cow on Newman farm

Newman family photo

Newman Family

Newman Family

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

Newman family photo

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

Lady sitting on basket of potatoes - 1937

Lona Dailey McKinley photo

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 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 o

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

Four people in cornfield

Lona Dailey McKinley photo

                                Philip Dailey and           - 1937  Dailey family 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 Phil

Dailey family in cart 7-1919
L - R
Ruth Thompson (Dick’s wife from Phil., Georgia’s stepsister)
Helen Dailey
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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

Lady from Sandy Bottom

 W.C. Dailey deed

W.C. Dailey deed

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

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

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

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

Dailey Family photo

 John Henry and Cora Thompson Dailey 1943  Dailey family photo

John Henry and Cora Thompson Dailey 1943

Dailey family photo

 Dailey children in field - 1919   Lona D. McKinley photo

Dailey children in field - 1919


Lona D. McKinley photo

 Dailey Family  Dailey family 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

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

Lady and two children in automobile. Ruth?

Dailey/Lona McKinley photo

 Dailey family member with chickens and cat  Lona Dailey McKinley photo

Dailey family member with chickens and cat

Lona Dailey McKinley photo

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

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

Lona McKinley photo

Stanley Pruden

Stanley Pruden

Stanley Pruden, father of Wilson Pruden
Sandy Bottom farmer

Pruden family photo

 Hazel Dailey Delk  Dailey family photo

Hazel Dailey Delk

Dailey family photo

 Chuckatuck High School teachers

Chuckatuck High School teachers

 State highway chart showing landowners in Sandy Bottom

State highway chart showing landowners in Sandy Bottom

 State highway diagram for widening of road through 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 ownership of land along highway in Sandy Bottom.

 State highway drawings showing widening of road through Sandy Bottom

State highway drawings showing widening of road through Sandy Bottom

 State highway information on land ownership in Sandy Bottom

State highway information on land ownership in Sandy Bottom

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

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

 Info on land ownership along highway through 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

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

Road to Briar Farm near Sandy Bottom

Raine family photo

 Lane to the Briar Farm near Sandy Bottom  Raine family photo

Lane to the Briar Farm near Sandy Bottom

Raine family photo

Chuckatuck High School

Chuckatuck High School

Katey Rippey, Barrett and Marion Ingersoll
Chuckatuck High School friends

Katie Rippey photo

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

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

Raine family photo

April 4, 1939

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.

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

Marion Taylor Randall

Marion Taylor Randall

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

Raine family photo

The old swimming hole

The old swimming hole

Raine House on Briar Farm

Raine House on Briar Farm

Marion Taylor Randall

Marion Taylor Randall

Marion Taylor Randall of Sandy Bottom

Raine family photo

Woolford House

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

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

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

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

Inside of Old Kitchen Antiques 1960

Pruden family photo

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

Information on old kitchen on Pruden farm

Pruden family information

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

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

Pruden family article

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 1901 Pruden deed

1901 Pruden deed

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

Jesse P. Pittman with his mule - Virginian Pilot photo

Mattie Rawls

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

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

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

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

Plummie Diggs Hicks

 Leona Pruden and son Terry Pruden, c1948  Pruden family photo

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 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

Marvin Pruden with daughter Nancy and mother Pearl 1961

Pruden family photo

Pruden Home place on Crooked Creek Farm

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

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

Stanley and Ethel Pruden Pruden

Pruden family photo

 Leona Pruden with Terry and Deborah Pruden c1952  Nancy Pruden photo

Leona Pruden with Terry and Deborah Pruden
c1952

Nancy Pruden photo

Wilson Pruden

Wilson Pruden

Wilson Pruden checking crops on his farm.

Pruden family photo

Wilson Pruden

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

Nancy Pruden photo

 Wilson, Stanley and Ethel Pruden  Pruden family photo

Wilson, Stanley and Ethel Pruden

Pruden family photo

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

Ruth Pruden with daughter Deborah 8/1954

Deborah Pruden family photo

Mrs. Ruth Darden

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, formerly Sandy Bottom School

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

Beverly Whitley photo

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

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

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 Theodore Allen family T. Allen photo

Theodore Allen family
T. Allen photo

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Chapman's Store

Chapman's Store

John Randall

John Randall

Rabbit Hunt

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

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

Bradshaw family photo

Nansemond Marine

Nansemond Marine

Site of Chapman’s Store

Sam Chapman

Sam Chapman

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

Chapman house

Chapman house

John Odom

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.

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 business in Sandy Bottom: run by Gib Chapman

Chapman family photo

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 Nansemond Marine in Sandy Bottom  Chapman family photo

Nansemond Marine in Sandy Bottom

Chapman family photo

 Shed behind Dailey’s Store  L. Rose photo

Shed behind Dailey’s Store

L. Rose photo

W.C. Dailey's House

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

Dailey’s Store after it closed

Dailey's Store

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 - Sandy Bottom

Dailey's Store

Dailey's Store

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

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Dailey's Store

Dailey's Store

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

Dailey family photo

Interior of Dailey's Store

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

Dailey's Store

Inside of Dailey’s Store

Dailey family photo

Dailey's store

Dailey's store

Interior of Dailey’s Store following closing - cash register, etc.

Dailey family photo

Dailey's store

Dailey's store

Dailey’s Store scales - after it closed

Dailey family photo

 Dailey’s Store equipment.  Dailey family photo

Dailey’s Store equipment.

Dailey family photo

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

Dailey’s Store side shelves after close.

Dailey family photo

Dailey's store

Dailey's store

Dailey’s Store - Sandy Bottom

Dailey family phpoto

Dailey's store

Dailey's store

Pot belly stove in W. C. Dailey’s Store, Sandy Bottom

Dailey Family photo

Diamond Way Store c1955

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 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 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

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

Sam and Evelyn Chapman

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

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

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Original Corbell plantation home on Crooked Creek Farm
 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
Pruden Farm 1930's
Early Landowners 1915 photo
Whitman Hicks
Early Landowner
Willie Mann of Sandy Bottom
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 Connie Newman
Mr and Mrs Oliver Newman
Oliver Newman House
Gladys Newman's yard
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Buddy Newman
Newman Family
 Lady sitting on basket of potatoes - 1937  Lona Dailey McKinley photo
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 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 o
 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 Phil
 Lady from Sandy Bottom
 W.C. Dailey deed
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 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
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 Early picture of unknown on early Dailey’s Store (?) porch  Lona McKinley photo
Stanley Pruden
 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
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 Catherine Rippey Hager, Howard “Duck” Taylor, Polkey Woolford, George Hicks of Sandy Bottom c1999  Raine family photo
April 4, 1939
 Bill and Mildred Rippey, c1953 Mr. Rippey was the agricultural teacher at Chuckatuck High School.
Marion Taylor Randall
The old swimming hole
Raine House on Briar Farm
Marion Taylor Randall
Woolford House
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 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
 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
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 1901 deed of sale to Henry Pruden (Nancy’s great, great-grandfather)  Pruden family article
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 1901 Pruden deed
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 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
 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
 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
Diamond Grove Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, formerly Sandy Bottom School
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 Former student at Sandy Bottom School, Doria Mitchell, with her teacher, Mrs. Monger Lawrence.
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 Theodore Allen family T. Allen photo
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Chapman's Store
John Randall
Rabbit Hunt
 Early picture of Chapman’s Store in Sandy Bottom John Bradshaw standing in front  Bradshaw family photo
Nansemond Marine
Sam Chapman
Chapman house
John Odom
 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
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 Nansemond Marine in Sandy Bottom  Chapman family photo
 Shed behind Dailey’s Store  L. Rose photo
W.C. Dailey's House
Dailey's Store
Dailey's Store
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 Dailey’s Store - Sandy Bottom
Dailey's Store
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Dailey's Store
Interior of Dailey's Store
Dailey's Store
Dailey's store
Dailey's store
 Dailey’s Store equipment.  Dailey family photo
 Dailey’s Store side shelves after close.  Dailey family photo
Dailey's store
Dailey's store
Diamond Way Store c1955
 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
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 Diamond Grove Baptist Church, Sandy Bottom, VA  Beverly Whitley  photo
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