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millongalaxline.jpg
 millongalaxline.jpg1009 viewsThis photo is from the early 20th century.
Llama(2).jpg
 Coulson Church Road - Llama1001 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.jpg960 viewsThis postcard is from an image made the day following the massacre in the court house.
hillsville2.jpg
 hillsville2.jpg937 viewsThis is taken from a 1930s postcard.
oxenfancygap.jpg
 oxenfancygap.jpg936 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.
pyrrhotitemine.jpg
 pyrrhotitemine.jpg930 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.
hillsvillemethodist.jpg
 hillsvillemethodist.jpg920 viewsFrom a 1940s-1950s postcard.
woodlawnschool.jpg
 woodlawnschool.jpg909 viewsThis photo is from 1937.
groundhogmtn.jpg
 Hillsville - Ground Hog Mountain905 viewsFrom a 1960s era postcard. Located at mile marker 188 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
hwy121hillsville.jpg
 hwy121hillsville.jpg901 viewsThis view made in the early 1930s shows Highway 121 approaching Hillsville. I presume that this is now highway 221.
sylvatusschool.jpg
 sylvatusschool.jpg892 viewsThis photo is from the mid 1930s.
nuckollsdrug.jpg
 nuckollsdrug.jpg891 viewsThis is a mid-1920s postcard of the interior of Nuckolls Drug Store in Hillsville.
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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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