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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 - Ashe County, NC
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HeltonSchool(ca1915-20).jpg904 viewsMy great-grandfather Wade Jones Sr. is one of the teachers in this photo. He is on left with little black bowtie near edge of window. I don;t know when the picture was taken but from looking at him I would suggest 1915-20, maybe up to 1925. I don;t know any of the others. Courtesy of Danny Miller millerd@fuse.net
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100_1575.jpg903 viewsIn this view, the right hand fork is the North Fork of New River, and the left hand fork is the South Fork of New River. The foreground is in Ashe County, the bluff on the opposite side of the river is in Alleghany County, NC. Photo by Jeff Weaver, April 16, 2006.
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4879.jpg895 viewsMArkers for Martha Jane and Defina Davis in the Jont Mountain Davis Cemetery, Ashe County, NC. Courtesy of jcamel 232002
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100_1594.jpg893 viewsThis church occupies the same location was the Presbyterian Church which was reported here in 1773. A Primitive Baptist Church also occupied this spot from the early 1800s until about 1900, when this building was constructed. Photo April 16, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.
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100_1399.jpg892 viewsPhoto March 31, 2006 by Jeff Weaver
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100_1573.jpg892 viewsThis image was made a few yards south of the forks of the New River on the North Fork. Photo by Jeff Weaver, April 16, 2006.
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100_1580.jpg890 viewsOK, its not much of a falls, more like rapids, but it is called the Falls of the North Fork. Photo by Jeff Weaver, April 16, 2006.
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100_1396.jpg888 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, March 31, 2006.
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hashcabin1.jpg884 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, Summer 2003.
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wj1916.jpg884 viewsThis photograph was made in 1916.
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342.jpg883 viewsThis is Albert Neaves poling a flat bottom boat on the North Fork of New River about 1946.
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heltonss.jpg875 viewsThis is a Sunday school photo, probably taken around 1915 if the woman sitting top center with her arm draped over the shoulder of a big-eared son is, indeed, Ada Littlewood Francis (oldest son had stick-out ears). The picture was taken on the front steps of Herbert and Hannah Littlewood's home on Helton Creek. Courtesy of Emily Kilby.
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