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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.


Last additions - Grayson County and City of Galax, VA
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Whitetop - Mount Rogers School450 viewsPhoto October 18, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.Oct 18, 2006
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decorationday~0.jpg365 viewsDecoration Day at Haw Orchard Baptist Church Cemetery is the 2nd Sunday in August. This photo is from 1979 and was taken by Jeff Weaver.Oct 16, 2006
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andersonharveyellis.jpg545 viewsMy father, Harvey Ellis Anderson, is second from the left in the front row. It has always been my impression that he was the teacher at this school in Majors. I am not sure of his age at the time, but wonder how he qualified as a teacher. I have no idea where he might have attended school although I believe he briefly attended college at Valpairoso College or University somewhere in the midwest as he was returning to Grayson County from Washington State. (The only information I have about his time in Washington was that he and several friends climbed Mount Baker which he reported to a newspaper in Grayson. I have a copy of his "letter to the editor." Several of his siblings are also present in the picture and their names are underlined. Claude Testerman is also shown who married Harvey's sister, Laura. Courtesy of R. David Anderson rdandy1@cfw.com
Oct 14, 2006
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pics 225.jpg315 viewsMaking music at the October 8, 2006 Whitetop Molasses festival. Photo by Jeff Weaver.Oct 09, 2006
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pics 221.jpg309 viewsThis photo was taken October 8, 2006 at the Whitetop Molasses festival by Jeff Weaver.Oct 09, 2006
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galaxfun1973.jpg387 viewsThis 1973 photo from the National Park Service Historic Photographic Collection shows some boys having fun in the summer near the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Galax, Virginia.Oct 07, 2006
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pics 218.jpg276 viewsPhoto October 4, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.Oct 05, 2006
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pics 193.jpg261 viewsThis October 4, 2006 photo shows the place the Appalachian Trail crosses route 600 at the Elk Garden. Photo by Jeff Weaver.Oct 04, 2006
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pics 192.jpg271 viewsThis is a photo of Mount Rogers taken from Elk Garden on October 4, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.Oct 04, 2006
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pics 190.jpg283 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, October 4, 2006.Oct 04, 2006
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OsborneMotel.jpg343 viewsThis postcard from circa 1990 is courtesy of Harold Hash.Oct 03, 2006
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pics 162.jpg285 viewsThis photo shows a field of stripped sugar cane. The leaves are stripped off the cane before harvest and processing into molasses. Photo September 27, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.Sep 28, 2006
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