by Sears Homes | Apr 24, 2014 | Uncategorized |
It was Mr. J. M. Dozier of Lee Hall, VA that purchased Penniman after World War I ended. Thursday, after spending many hours at the York County Courthouse, I learned that Mr. Dozier bought Penniman from DuPont in April 1926, after the U. S. Army left. J. M. Dozier and...
by Sears Homes | Jan 30, 2013 | Uncategorized |
Since August 2010, I’ve written almost 700 blogs. That’s a lot of blogs. Each blog has three or more photos. That’s thousands of photos. Some of these blogs took several hours to compose, and then get bumped off the page within a week of their...
by Sears Homes | Mar 11, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Sometimes, when you’re running down a mystery, there are wonderful and unexpected surprises. Such a thing happened Friday morning. An email appeared in my inbox, from a woman who was the granddaughter of Warren B. Hastings. Mr. Hastings owned a stevedore company...
by Sears Homes | Jan 31, 2012 | Uncategorized |
It was called Virginia’s own Ghost Town. Penniman, Virginia, sat on the land now occupied by Cheatham Annex (near Williamsburg) and started – quite literally – as a Boom Town. In late 1916, DuPont selected the site as their 37th munitions plant,...
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