Gem State Adventist Academy early 1930s were 12 cents an hour for boys and 10 cents an hour for girls. At Gem State, the 1941 and 1942 yearbooks were dedicated to those students and former students who had gone to serve in the war, some of whom had been killed in action. After the war a bakery was built to increase student employment opportunities; it ultimately became the Rhodes Bake-N-Serv Company. In the 1960s, while President John Kennedy was planning to put men on the moon, and Martin Luther King Jr. was fighting for civil rights, the Idaho Conference of Seventh-day Adventists were planning
Virginia State Route 255 Virginia State Route 255 State Route 255 (SR 255) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. Known as Bishop Meade Highway, the state highway runs from U.S. Route 17 and US 50 near Millwood north to US 340 at Briggs in southern Clarke County. SR 255 is a Virginia Byway. SR 255 begins at an intersection with US 17 and US 50 (Millwood Pike) south of Millwood. The state highway heads north as a two-lane road through the village of Millwood, the location of several historic sites including the estate Carter Hall. SR 255 continues north