Nelson Theater Fire

ID: 485 ~ Source: William Hoyle Garber Digital Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg VA ~ Creator: William Hoyle Garber ~ Date: March 8 1947

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Photograph showing Toms Brook Volunteer Fire Department's fire engine and area firefighters helping to extinguish a fire at the Nelson Theater on March 8, 1947.

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Nelson Theater

By Shenandoah County Library

In 1938, Burgess Nelson, a local businessman and Gulf Oil Dealer, built this theatre in Mt. Jackson. It was the first purpose built theatre in town and was modeled after the Rosalind Theatre in New…