Sandy Bottom Photo Gallery

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

Nancy Pruden photo

J.J. Philips of Chuckatuck and New York

Brothers David Corbell Cotton, Jasper Cotton and Edwin Cotton

Roy Pope photo

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 c1940

Ida Mann photo

Virginia A. Corbell Cotten, David Corbell Cotten, Claire Cotton, c1915 - early landowners in the Cotton Farm Lane area.

Leroy Pope photo

Whitman Hicks, Veteran of World War 1, oysterman and pillar of Sandy Bottom community

Woolford family photo

Wiliam Ferdinand Cotten

Willie Mann of Sandy Bottom

Ida Mann photo

Connie Newman

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

Newman family photo

Oliver Newman home

Newman family photo

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

Buddy Newman with cow on Newman farm

Newman family photo

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

Newman family photo

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

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

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, beloved cook and child care provider. c1946
In Raine kitchen

Woolford photo

Early picture of Dailey house next to the store in Sandy Bottom.

Lona Dailey family photo

Marion Taylor Randall of Sandy Bottom

Raine family photo

Woolford-Rippey house on Briar Farm - located off Ferry Point Road.
Visible to the right is a cove of the Nansemond River where various churches in the area held baptisms.

Polkey Woolford 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

Mrs. Ruth Darden, teacher at 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

Theodore Allen photo

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

Site of Chapman’s Store

Sam and Evelyn Chapman

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

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

Dailey’s Store after it closed

Dailey’s Store

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

L. Rose photo

Nansemond Marine formerly Chapman’s Store

Dailey’s Store - Sandy Bottom

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

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

Dailey family photo

Steps up to a Dailey’s Store storage area. For years this space housed several different families.

Dailey Family photo

Inside of Dailey’s Store

Dailey family photo

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

Dailey family photo

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 - Sandy Bottom

Dailey family phpoto

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

Dailey Family photo

Diamond Way Service Station and Store c 1955. Owned and operated by James Lee Diggs, Sr. and Lilian Diggs. 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.
They 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

Diamond Grove Baptist Church, Sandy Bottom, VA

Beverly Whitley photo

King’s Highway Bridge 1933

W.G. & Elsie Copeland’s home on Cotton Farm Lane. Torn down in 2024

Lynn Rose photo

Corbell house on Cotton Farm Lane

Photo by Lynn Rose

Annie Powell Pope - circa 1900-1905

Pope family photo

Front view of the Corbell home (later Cotton home) Cypress Vale, on Chuckatuck Creek/Cotton Farm Lane - 1954

Roy Pope photo

Wilson Pruden with car in front of home place 1953 img059