Then and Now
Since I don’t yet know how to do this in an interactive format, I figured I would share this little story with you via screenshots. Below is an ariel image of some property my grandmother’s brother-in-law’s family used to own as it looked in 1937, courtesy of this website for the City of Newport News. You can clearly see their prized James River facing property and the row of cedar tress lining their driveway.
I was able to stretch this over a satellite view of the same exact area taken in 2010 on Google Earth. You can see how houses have developed around the property, but that the cedar trees remained. This is because when the family sold the property, the stipulated that the cedar trees must be kept intact as long as they remained healthy.
You can see how the ariel photograph was situated in the screenshot below:
Hope you enjoyed this little piece of my family’s history!