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Katherine Pinner, student, with teacher Lizzie Pinner on the right
Other students:
Middle row - Charlie B. Godwin, Whitney Godwin, Carlisle Gilliam
Front row - Wilmer Godwin, Oliver Gilliam c1907

Godwin family photo
The house in the background is the Pinner house, still standing in 2025.

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Jasper Cotten Home in Chuckatuck in background - c1908-09
Earlier the location of a military school run by Col. J. J. Phillips

The ladies in the front were Miss , Miss , Miss Madge Goodson, Miss .

Madge Goodson was the grandmother of Lynn K. Rose

L. Rose photo

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Chuckatuck - 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades - 1925

Gilliam family collection

Chuckatuck May Day festivities c 1928

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Dailey family photo

Oakland Elementary School May Pole dance c.1957

Oakland Elementary School May pole dance - c1957
Clarice Whitfield photo

Oakland May Day Queen and Court c 1957

W. F. Evans, principal

Clarice Whitfield photo

Nathaniel T. Gray, bus driver for Chuckatuck High School c. 1943

The route was Everets Road to Sandy Bottom.
Christina Gray photo

W. G. Saunders, Jr. 4th grade report card - 1915/16 "Everett's Bridge School"

W.G. Saunders, Jr. 4th grade report card - 1915/16 Everett’s Bridge School

Loaned by Bill Saunders

Everets Bridge school c 1900s

Building was located near the home of T. J.. Saunders, Jr.
Attended by local children. Later moved to the property of Lewis and Alice Morgan where it stands in 2024. Lynn Rose has two desks that came from this school.

TJ Saunders standing in front of Everets School

Mary S Latimer photo

Students at Everets School, c1914
Front row: second-Evelyn Saunders, sixth-Peggy Pruden
Back row-2nd- W. G. Saunders, Jr., 3rd - ? Pruden
One boy was brother to Ruby Edwards Qwaltney and another was thought to be Jacobson Pruden

W.G. Saunders family photo

Myrtle Powell Daughtrey, teacher at Everets School c1895

Evelyn Daughtrey photo

Oakland School c. 1930

Clarice Whitfield photo

Oakland Elementary School students

Clarice Whitfield photo

Oakland Elementary School PTA ceremony

Ceremony Oakland PTA - Superintendent George Lewis Cowling at microphone
Clarice Whitfield photo

Oakland PTA Assembly

Superintendent George Lewis Cowling

Clarice Whitfield photo

Oakland School educators 1970s

Oakland Educators - Mrs. John Smith, Mrs. Lillian Collins, unknown, Miss Ira Johnson, Supt. George L. Cowling, Miss Euphania Crocker c1970s

Photo loaned by Mrs. Clarice Whitfield.

Former Sandy Bottom School - 2011

2011 - Diamond Grove Fellowship Hall
Beverly Whitley photo

Sandy Bottom School song

Contributed by Mary D. Brown

Monger Lawrence, Sandy Bottom School teacher, with former student, Dorie Mitchell.

Mary D. Brown photo

Mrs. Ruth Darden

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Chuckatuck High School cheerleaders - 1949

Front row: Katie Rippey, J.R. Dixon, Martha Berry
Second row: Joy Gayle, R. Mathews, B. Whitmore, Betty Staylor, Vera Erasmi
Katie R. Hager photo

Students on an outing in Chuckatuck c 1944

Seated: Sonny Chapman, Scott Saunders
Standing: Audrey Newman, Maxine Gayle, Jean Dailey circa 1944

Chuckatuck teachers with Lewis Morris, principal 1957

Vernon Gayle photo

Friends at Chuckatuck High School -
“Pop” Byrd, Frank Gayle and “Sonny” Chapman - c1944

Chapman family photo

3rd and 4th grade students - Daisy Sullivan, teacher

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Chuckatuck High School students

Scott Saunders picture

Chuckatuck High School students

Scott Saunders picture

Chuckatuck High School students

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John Rose with his kindergarten aide, Betty Staylor Bradshaw - Oakland Elementary School c 1976

Lynn Rose photo

Oakland Elementary School May Day - Kindergarten students - 1976

Lynn Rose photo

John Rose marked with blue circle

Oakland Elementary School May Day celebration May 1977

Mrs. Mary Biggs, teacher
Lynn K. Rose, photo

Oakland May Day

Monica Wright and

PTA Festivities at Oakland Elementary School

Peggy Chapman and Joni Kilopano

Norris photo

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Betty Staylor Bradshaw’s preschool in Chuckatuck

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East Suffolk High School teachers

Lowell Turner photo

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Enoch Copeland, Former principal of Oakland Elementary School

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March 2002 - Christian Home School on Longview Drive prior to being moved to Smithfield for Schoolhouse Museum.

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Mrs. Betty Bradshaw’s Nursery School 1974

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