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New River Notes Photo Gallery

A Collection of historic and current photos mostly covering the upper New River area of southwestern Virginia and northwestern North Carolina.


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Blowing Rock - Tweetsie Railroad Trestle555 viewsFrom a 1960s postcard.
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vallecrucisschool.jpg315 viewsThis is the Episcopal Church Mission School at Valle Crucis circa 1910.
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Wataugaacad.jpg299 viewsThis postcard was made very near the year 1900, and shows the Watauga Academy.
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wataugacourthouse.jpg298 viewsThis structure is now gone, this photo from the late 1930s.
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Boone - Watauga Handcraft Center308 viewsFrom a 1960s browntone postcard.
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wataugahouseca1912.jpg304 viewsThis is a circa 1912 postcard of an early tourist home in Blowing Rock.
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winebargermill.jpg344 viewsThis is from a 1960s postcard.
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wolfden.jpg506 viewsThis is a photo of the Wolf Den in present day Watauga County. This is the location of the Ben Cleveland - William Riddle Affair in the American Revolution.
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