by Sears Homes | Mar 24, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Incredible researcher and smart cookie Mark Hardin has made another remarkable discovery. He found an advertisement (dated October 1922) in the Richmond Times Dispatch, offering the Village of Penniman for sale. By this time, most of the contents of the WW1 munitions...
by Sears Homes | Feb 6, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Thursday night, David Spriggs and I gave our first talk on Penniman, Virginia’s Own Ghost Town. While preparing our powerpoint presentation, I learned two things I had not known before: 1) Sometime in 1917 or 1918, a German sub made its way to the York River,...
by Sears Homes | Jan 20, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Sometime in the 1930s, a man named Frank Workman not only built a Sears Strathmore, but he had the wisdom to document part of the process through photographs. About 80 years later, a kind soul named Ms. Dickinson had the wisdom to save those photos and put them on...
by Sears Homes | Dec 17, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Whilst researching Penniman, I’ve had the occasion to talk with many historians and museum curators and too many to count have told me, “One hundred years ago, houses just weren’t moved. People didn’t have the means to move an entire house like...
by Sears Homes | Dec 16, 2013 | Uncategorized |
In my ongoing quest to learn more about Penniman, Virginia, I visited Ike Skelton Library (a military library in Norfolk) and they told me about “The Shell Inspector,” published by the U. S. Army in 1918. The 44-page book was written by the men of the...
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