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 | 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 | Nov 27, 2013 | Uncategorized |
“Penniman was not erased, it was dispersed” (R. Wythe Davis). While organizing my 2,000+ pages of research notes on Penniman, I found the above quote. It was in amongst some materials shared with me by author and historian Will Molineux. It offers quite an...
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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