Picture Box
These photos from the Observer-Reporter archives show a little bit about what life was like here 70 years ago.
Drivers walk the picket line in front of the Blue Ridge bus depot on East Maiden Street in Washington. The building now houses offices, including those of District Judge Robert Redlinger.
A pilot poses in his plane on what one day would be the paved runway of Washington County Airport in South Franklin Township.
And a group of boys places flags on the graves of veterans at Washington Cemetery. At that time in 1946, the remains of fallen soldiers were still being returned for burial from the battlefields of World War II.