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stringfellowepiscopal.jpg
 stringfellowepiscopal.jpg429 viewsFrom a 1915-30 era postcard.
asuhospital.jpg
 asuhospital.jpg429 viewsThis postcard dates from circa. 1945.
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 Aho - Julian Price Park Dam428 viewsFrom the collection of the Library of Congress.
wataugahouseca1912.jpg
 wataugahouseca1912.jpg427 viewsThis is a circa 1912 postcard of an early tourist home in Blowing Rock.
stelizrcc.jpg
 stelizrcc.jpg427 viewsThis chrome era postcard dates from the 1960s or 1970s.
boonelutheran.jpg
 boonelutheran.jpg423 viewsThis postcard view dates to 1930-45. This church is located at the intersection of King Street and Blowing Rock Road.
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 PICT0017.JPG423 viewsThis school is in western Watauga County, near the Johnson County, TN line. Photo by Jeff Weaver, April 28, 2006.
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 tweetsie.jpg423 viewsTheme park near Blowing Rock using the old East Tennessee and Western North Carolina railroad equipment. The ET&WNC is locally known as the "Eat Taters and Wear No Clothes Railroad"
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 Blwong Rock - Lake on the Cone Estate423 viewsPostmarked August `1930, this postcard shows the lake on the Moses Cone Estate near Blowing Rock.
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 Boone - Black Bear Trail423 viewsFrom a 1930s postcard. This is now US 321 from Boone to Blowing Rock.
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 pics 098.jpg421 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, Spring 2006.
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 100_1774.jpg421 viewsPhoto October 20, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.
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The Grayson County Virginia Heritage Foundation is established to promote, preserve, and educate the members and public about the cultural and family heritages of Grayson County, Virginia. We are a public charity under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

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