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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.


Most viewed - Carroll County, VA
millongalaxline.jpg
millongalaxline.jpg971 viewsThis photo is from the early 20th century.
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Coulson Church Road - Llama953 viewsThis is one of the ugliest horses that I've ever seen! ;-)
Coulson Ch. Rd., Carroll Co. Photo by Shawn Dunford. Courtesyof David Arnold david-arnold@comcast.net
hillsvilletragedy.jpg
hillsvilletragedy.jpg914 viewsThis postcard is from an image made the day following the massacre in the court house.
pyrrhotitemine.jpg
pyrrhotitemine.jpg900 viewsGeneral View of the pyrrhotite vein, "Great Gosan Lead" at "Great Outburst" near Chestnut Yard, Carroll County, VA. This photo is from Mineral Resources of Virginia published in 1907.
oxenfancygap.jpg
oxenfancygap.jpg899 viewsThis 1940 photo from the National Park Service Historic Photographic Collection shows a farmer and team of oxen. The oxen are pulling a sledge to break up clods in newly plowed ground.
hillsville2.jpg
hillsville2.jpg897 viewsThis is taken from a 1930s postcard.
hillsvillemethodist.jpg
hillsvillemethodist.jpg880 viewsFrom a 1940s-1950s postcard.
woodlawnschool.jpg
woodlawnschool.jpg879 viewsThis photo is from 1937.
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Hillsville - Ground Hog Mountain876 viewsFrom a 1960s era postcard. Located at mile marker 188 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
nuckollsdrug.jpg
nuckollsdrug.jpg866 viewsThis is a mid-1920s postcard of the interior of Nuckolls Drug Store in Hillsville.
hwy121hillsville.jpg
hwy121hillsville.jpg859 viewsThis view made in the early 1930s shows Highway 121 approaching Hillsville. I presume that this is now highway 221.
sylvatusschool.jpg
sylvatusschool.jpg853 viewsThis photo is from the mid 1930s.
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