Before houses, shops and attractions lined Main Street on Chincoteague Island, there once stood an ice cream shop, a hotel, a post office and a factory. Just over 100 years ago, the island was filled with dirt roads and wood and brick buildings, according to assistant director of the Museum of Chincoteague Island Cindy Faith. “It looks sort of like any movie set that you would have seen out west depicting the turn of the century,” Faith said.
Nia Bedard
Intern
Don's Seafood in Chincoteague, Virginia, now stands at the site of the barrel factory where the 1924 fire originated from.
Sundial Books in Chincoteague, Virginia, stands in one of the few areas that was not destroyed by the 1924 fire.
A stand on Main Street in Chincoteague, Virginia describes the damage done to the town after the fires in the 1920s.
The Island Theatre, located on Main Street in Chincoteague, Virginia, stands on the remnants of the fire that took place in 1920.
The Delaware House of Representatives voted to pass legislation to clarify and expand the offense of criminal impersonation in the state. This legislation comes after the attack and death of a Minnesota State representative and her husband as well as the attempted attack on a Minnesota State senator and his wife by a private citizen impersonating a police officer.