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 carterparkwytheville.jpg833 viewsThis post card is from the 1950s.
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 Fort Chiswell - Anchor and Hope Plantation Marker833 viewsPhoto by Shawn Dunford. Courtesy of David Arnold david.arnold@adelphia.net
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 wythevillemain1908.jpg828 viewsThis postcard view was captured in 1908.
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 ftchismon.jpg827 viewsThis is a monument at the location of Fort Chiswell, a few miles north of the town of Wytheville. From an old postcard.
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 Wytheville - 1846 Engraving826 viewsThis engraving of Wytheville is taken from Howe's History of Virginia, published in 1846.
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 wytheville_51857.jpg825 viewsThis is a Five dollar note issues by a Wytheville bank in 1857.
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 stpaulschurch1908.jpg823 viewsThis is from a 1908 postcard.
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 ruralretreat~0.jpg822 viewsThe railroad line near Rural Retreat is shown here. The Virginia and East Tennessee Railroad first built the road through this area in 1855. This section of road is now operated by Norfolk and Western.
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 w4.jpg822 viewsThis postcard dates from 1923.
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 Wythevill - St. John's Episcopal Church822 viewsThis postcard image dates from 1911,
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 queensknob.jpg821 viewsFrom a circa 1920 postcard.
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 maxmeadowsfurnace.jpg820 viewsFrom a mid-19th century engraving.
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