Eunice Bundy came to Hanover County in 1930 as a combined elementary and high school teacher at the Hanover Training School. She was appointed principal in 1936, and remained principal when the school was renamed John M. Gandy School.

Robinson’s vision helped establish the town, and his Ashland Hotel and Mineral Well Company’s resort complex served as Randolph Macon’s new campus.

Floyd Woodruff Tucker, Jr. enlisted in the army at the age of 16. He returned to Ashland to begin a career of community service and leadership.

Harry V. Smeeman served as Ashland’s solitary police sergeant from 1922 to 1929, when he was shot and killed while patrolling the streets of Ashland.

Henry Clay was born in 1777 at Clay Spring, his family home, located just east of Ashland in the area known as “the slashes of Hanover County.”

Jay Pace joined the Herald-Progress staff in 1973, became editor in 1978, and then editor/publisher when he purchased the paper and printing company in 1981.

A natural entrepreneur, James Napoleon Luck’s first business was the S.A. Luck & J.N. Luck Livery, Board, and Feed Stable located in downtown Ashland in 1906.

John R. Fleming, a former vocational agriculture teacher and assistant principal, was the first African-American to serve on the Hanover County School Board, serving from 1977 to 1981.

While a student at Randolph-Macon College, Jordan Wheat Lambert showed his flair for chemistry and business that would lead to his later success in inventing Listerine.

Growing up in Ashland, Lester Jackson attended the Hanover County Training School (later John M. Gandy), where he organized the school’s first baseball team and doubled as player and coach.

A native Ashlander, “Shirts” Blanton was a natural athlete who played semi-professional baseball.

Paul and Lois Watkins came to Ashland from Chicago in the summer of 1933.

C. Hunter Jones, a native Ashlander, gave generously of his time and talents to improve the lives of others.

Hugh Stephens graduated from Randolph-Macon in 1941 and became the athletic director of Henry Clay High School.

Hill Carter was named Commonwealth’s Attorney in 1872 and was considered one of Virginia’s top criminal lawyers. He later represented Hanover County in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901-1902.

Dick Gillis was the enthusiastic Mayor of Ashland for sixteen years who proclaimed Ashland as the “Center of the Universe”.

Born in 1828, St. George Tucker was the son of Henry St. George Tucker, legislator, congressman, and judge in the early years of the Republic.

Sunshine Sue was the nationally known star of the wildly popular country music variety show, The Old Dominion Barn Dance.