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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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The William Weaver, Sr. Family Cemetery, looking east (wide angle shot).192 views
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Weaver - The William Weaver, Sr. grave marker. 259 viewsNOTE: William Weaver, Sr. did not serve in the Continental Line during the Revolution; the error was made by the Veteran's Administration in preparing the marker. Robert Bower Weaver submitted the application based on
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windfallfall.jpg376 viewsThis fall view was taken from the top of the Windfall, Ashe County, NC in October 1980 by Jeff Weaver
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wj1916.jpg771 viewsThis photograph was made in 1916.
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wmgrimsleystone.jpg468 viewsPhoto November 5, 2006 by Chrissie A. Peters. This stone is in the Elisha Anderson Cemetery.
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Fleetwood - William Howell's gravemarker484 viewsCourtesy o Paul Howell docnpaul@bellsouth.net
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wmroop.jpg456 viewsCourtesy of Chrissie A. Peters
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wmspencerhome.jpg507 viewsLocated on Wallin's Branch, this view was taken by Heather Sexton.
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wmweaverstone.jpg490 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, early 1980s.
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woolenmill.jpg452 viewsThis is a view of the Littlewood Woolen Mill Building on Helton Creek. Photo by Jeff Weaver, June 1978.
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workcrew.jpg724 viewsThis is a photo that I got from my grandfather Hartsoe, he thinks it's when people used to have to do highway work for free, this may be a photo of when they worked on Highway 88 (do you know when Hwy 88 was built?). As for the year, his father looks like he's in his 20s which would make it circa 1910. Grandfather Hartsoe lived on Mill Creek (the one near Warrensville). Courtesy of Regina McCoy-Hopper
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WWIpeacefloat.jpg672 viewsThis float won first place in a parade in Jefferson celebrating the end of "the war to end all wars." Charles Bradley Pennington is at the horse's head, his oldest daughters, Rose, Anna and Edith, are the little peace angels. The peace "goddess" is unidentified. Courtesy of Emily Kilby.

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