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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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100_1569.jpg824 viewsPhoto April 16, 2006 by Jeff Weaver
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4879.jpg821 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.jpg821 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.jpg813 viewsPhoto March 31, 2006 by Jeff Weaver
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lansinggirls1944.jpg810 viewsCourtesy of J. B. Sergeant
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342.jpg810 viewsThis is Albert Neaves poling a flat bottom boat on the North Fork of New River about 1946.
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100_1580.jpg808 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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wj1916.jpg803 viewsThis photograph was made in 1916.
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HeltonSchool(ca1915-20).jpg803 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_1396.jpg800 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, March 31, 2006.
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100_1579.jpg796 viewsThis house was built in 1940 after an earlier home washed away in the 1940 flood. It has recently been extensively remodeled. Photo by Jeff Weaver, April 16, 2006.
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heltonknob.jpg793 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver spring, 2003
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