DVD - Remembering The Olinger Farm (36 mins.) featuring Jeannette Olinger Richman, who was born 1909
on the 192 acre farm situated on the west side of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River. The film
shows how hard life was in those days, and how the local small community existed living in the
countryside.
DVD - Harry Long Remembers (38 mins.) Born in 1925, Harry Long remembers the beginnings of the Poultry
Industry in New Market when the two elder sons started the New Market Poultry operation which grew
to a large scale operation.
DVD - A Heart of the Community – a banking history of New Market by Allen Johnson - 26 minutes
Allen Johnson, who joined the Citizens National Bank of New Market in 1954, relates the history
of the banks in New Market from 1872 until the present day (2010).
DVD - Melrose Caverns - 26 mins - A local caverns open from 1931 to 1969. During the civil war,
Union soldiers including the 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantrymen hid in this cave from Confederate soldiers.
While there they left numerous carvings and signatures.
DVD - Manor Mill- 26 mins - Manor Mill was a large 4 story floor flour mill situated on the North
Fork of the Shenandoah River, west of New Market. The story of how the mill came to be, and it’s
tragic end destroyed by fire in 1926.
The following family histories can be found on the shelves in the Grace Brubaker Room.
Note: These cannot be checked out of the library
Allen Quakers of Shenandoah Valley | Crabill Family |
Henckel Family Records | Rev Paul Henkel |
Henkel-Renalds Connections | David Holsinger |
Hupps from the Shenandoah Valley | The Kagey Family |
John Kagi and John Brown | Koiner - History & Genealogy |
The Lincolns in Virginia | The Rice Family |
Lloyd & Kipps | Mauck-Brubaker |
Neff Family and their Descendants | The Renalds Famity |
Sevier Family History | Joseph Shomo, Ancestors & Descendants of |
Urner Family, Genealogy of | The Wigfield and Nelson Families |
The Wine Family of America, Volume 3 | Zirkle Family in America |
Charles lsaac Zirkle and Annie Morio Zirkle | |
Eliza Catherine Clinedinst Crim, Mother of the VMI Cadets |
The Yearbooks for the former New Market High School can be found in the Grace Brubaker Reference Room. Except for the year 1950, you will find yearbooks covering the years 1937-38 to 1959.
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