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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.

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Pulaski - Maple Shade Inn1417 viewsThis is a circa 1930 real photo post card of Maple Shade Inn in Pulaski.
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ALLENH.jpg1400 viewsThis is Allen Hash, son of John Hash and Sarah Hash. They lived at Chestnut Hill in Ashe County, NC.
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phippsjh.jpg1398 viewsJames Harvey Phipps (1818-1884) son of John Phipps and Ruth Worth of Bridle Creek, Grayson County, VA; Evaline Weaver Phipps (1828-1881) daughter of Joshua Weaver and Sallie Ashley of Whitetop, Grayson County, VA. Lived on Old Field Creek, Ashe County, NC.
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Mule Hell - Eagle Rock Furnace.1398 viewsEagle Rock Furnace, Mule Hell Community near Cripple Creek, Wythe Co., VA. Photo by Shawn Dunford. Courtesy of David Arnold david.arnold@adelphia.net
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3topsch.jpg1397 viewsAn early 20th century photo of the Three Top School, courtesy of Warren Houck. Some might like to read A. B. Hurt's book on Educational Development in Ashe County
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Saltville - 1945-1946 Girls Basketball Team1393 views1945-46 SALTVILLE HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM

TOP ROW - L- R- EDNA WALTERS, COACH, MAIDDIE FRYE, VIVIAN LEVINE, RUTH CHEEKS, BETTY SUE CHAPMAN, MARY ELLEN ORR, PEGGY SMITH

BOTTOM ROW - BILLIE CAMPBELL, VIRGINIA DEBORD, MARY FRYE, ERNESTINE ROBERTS, PEGGY WARREN, JEAN WEBB, LUCILLE CREGGER

MATHIESON EMPLOYEES NEWS, MAY 1946, CHARLIE JONES PHOTO. Courtesy if Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
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yellowsulphursps.jpg1389 viewsThis painting was created in 1855.
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000_0834.jpg1388 viewsMother and son, at Jeff Weaver's home, Saltville, VA. Austin was home on leave from Kuwait and Iraq. Photo February 2006.
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deadbaby1.jpg1388 viewsThis morbid photo taken in the 1890s somewhere in Smyth County shows a dead baby. It was common in the days before photography was widespread to have portraits of dead children made. This is one of these photos. Courtesy of Rick Davidson.
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sarahhash.jpg1383 viewsSarah Hash, daughter of Robert Hash and Dollie Hart, lived at Weaver's Ford, Ashe Co., NC.
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Franklin Blevins.jpg1379 viewsThis is Franklin Blevins, son of Alfred and Margery Sheets Blevins.He is with his second wife, Dora Lee Hurley and their children. He married Dora 1896 and thier last child was born in 1905. He had eight children all together. Photo is circa 1904. Ashe County, NC

Courtesy of pamiam12@aol.com
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afw2.jpg1375 viewsFront row, left to right, Arthur Jackson Weaver, Hazel Weaver Poole, Fannie Blevins Weaver, Mary Weaver Blevins, Maxine Weaver Blevins; back row, left to right, Mattie Weaver Waddell, J. Clayborn Weaver, George Weaver, Dillard Weaver. Photo taken March 13, 1982 at Grassy Creek, NC by Jeff Weaver, on the occasion of the funeral of Clarence Edward Weaver.
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