by Sears Homes | Mar 13, 2015 | Uncategorized |
A delightful anecdote from 1921 tells us that, when the Penniman houses were shipped to Norfolk, some of the workers went into one of the houses – as it made the slow 36-mile trek across the water – and made a full breakfast, using the oil cook stove in...
by Sears Homes | Mar 2, 2015 | Uncategorized |
For four years, I’ve been researching Penniman, and still, the most wonderful surprises keep popping up. Last week, fellow history buff Mike Powell discovered a wonderful article in the Peninsula Enterprise (Accomac, Virginia) about moving houses from Penniman...
by Sears Homes | Feb 23, 2015 | Uncategorized |
In that process of rummaging through my notes on Penniman, I was reminded that I’d been looking for photos taken by Drewry Jones of Williamsburg. Despite lots of poking around, I never have been able to locate those photos (originals or reproductions), or anyone...
by Sears Homes | Mar 31, 2014 | Uncategorized |
In June 1938, an in-depth article on Penniman appeared in the Richmond Times Dispatch. The article featured a long photo of Penniman’s residential area. And it’s a photo that I’ve never seen before (other than the grainy image in the RT Dispatch)....
by Sears Homes | Oct 21, 2013 | Uncategorized |
The hunt is on. We’re working on a new book about a piece of Virginia’s regional history that is utterly and wholly captivating. Penniman: Virginia’s Own Ghost Town. In 1916, DuPont opened a new munitions factory on the old Bechtel Farm, on a piece...
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