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 wythesch.jpg1010 viewsFrom a 1940s postcard
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 Foster Falls - Galenea Methodist Church1010 viewsThe white church is the Galena Methodist Church on US 52 at it's intersection with Major Graham's Road. Hannah Walton Sanders (1806-1876) mentions this church in her Civil-War diary http://home.alltel.net/cjwalker/ Photo by Shawn Dunford. Courtesy of David Arnold david.arnold@adelphia.net
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 Wytheville - St. John's Episcopal Church1010 viewsFrom a 1950s real photo postcard.
grahamsforge.jpg
 grahamsforge.jpg1005 viewsThis is a 1960s postcard view of this Wythe County landmark.
highway11.jpg
 highway11.jpg1002 viewsThis 1950s postcard shows U.S. 11 between Wytheville and Marion, probably at Groseclose.
4thavenue1908.jpg
 4thavenue1908.jpg998 viewsThis is a 1908 postcard scene of a residential section of Wytheville.
shottower.jpg
 shottower.jpg995 viewsFrom a 1940s era postcard.
ruralretreat1908.jpg
 ruralretreat1908.jpg995 viewsThis 1908 photo shows a "typical" farm scene in Wythe County at that time.
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 rr_10.jpg994 viewsThis is a First National Bank of Rural Retreat $10 National Currency note, issued in 1933.
reedcreekbridge.jpg
 reedcreekbridge.jpg986 viewsThis ca. 1914 view shows the Norfolk & Western Railroad Bridge over Reed Creek near Wytheville.
speedwellschool.jpg
 speedwellschool.jpg986 viewsThis photo is courtesy of David Arnold david.arnold@adelphia.net
wyrickspring.jpg
 wyrickspring.jpg982 viewsAn early 20th century advertisement for Wyrick Springs Resort in Wythe County.
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