Skip to content

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 - Smyth County, VA
100_1541.jpg
100_1541.jpg1095 viewsPhoto April 14, 2006 by Jeff Weaver
maw1930sair.jpg
Saltville - Mathieson Alkali Works1093 viewsThis 1930s postcard shows an aerial view of the main Mathieson Alkali Works facilities along the banks of the North Fork of Holston River in Saltville.
ermakersbob.jpg
Saltville - Mathieson Alakli Works Boilermakers.1092 viewsBOILERMAKERS / MATHIESON ALKALI WORKS / SALTVILLE, VA. / 1919


TOP ROW - L-R - LLOYD SHORTT, BILL SHORTT, CLAUDE JACKSON, DAVE DEBUSK, FLETCHER BROWN, BOB POORE, WILLIE "BEAR" ROUTH, HAYNES DAVIS

BOTTOM - L-R- JOHN POORE, GARLAND LOWE, SID FARRIS, CHARLES GILBERT, WORLEY FRYE. Courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
100_1330.jpg
100_1330.jpg1091 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver March 22, 2006.
JULY17JAM036.jpg
JULY17JAM036.jpg1090 viewsKILBY SPENCER AND BLAKE RASH / SMYTH JAM / JULY 17, 2006. Photo by Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
CHURCH_AND_SCHOOL288.jpg
CHURCH_AND_SCHOOL288.jpg1089 viewsPhoto June 1973 by Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
TEASROAD042.jpg
Sugar Grove - Teas Road1084 viewsThis May 11, 2007 photo is courtesy of Don Smith. It looks like someone nuked Sugar Grove. dsmith@comcast.net
100_1316.jpg
100_1316.jpg1083 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, March 22, 2006.
100_1312.jpg
100_1312.jpg1083 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, March 22, 2006.
100_1325.jpg
100_1325.jpg1083 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, March 22, 2006.
atkinstank~0.jpg
atkinstank~0.jpg1083 viewsThis is an early 20th century photo of the tanks at Atkins Tank. Steam trains replenished their water supply here.
moma122606.jpg
moma122606.jpg1083 viewsThis photo December 26, 2006 by Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net. The museum door is draped in black in memory of Helen Williams Barbrow, president of the Saltville Foundation, who died on December 24, 2006 in St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
948 files on 79 page(s) 18


[Edit]