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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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thomasabiajh3.jpg768 viewsPhoto by Scott Trent.
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healingsprings.jpg768 viewsThis post card dates from the 1930s. This structure burned in the early 1960s.
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wythevillepowerplant1906.jpg768 viewsThis is a view of the electric power plant in Wytheville in 1906.
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wythevillefarmsecene.jpg768 viewsThis is a November 1940 photo showing a farm scene near Wytheville. From the Farm Security Administration files at the Library of Congress.
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Marion - Hotel Marion768 viewsFrom a 1932 postcard.
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Perkins, Harry768 viewsIt is uncertain who is in this photo, Is this Harry Perkins? Courtesy of Cathy Bell cjbell47@goldenwest.net
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daviscem.jpg767 viewsCourtesy of Jcamel232002
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jeffacad.jpg767 viewsThis is a newspaper announcement for the 1880 term of the Jefferson Academy. James Harvey Weaver was principal at that time.
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heltonpbc.jpg767 viewsThis church was organized in 1840 in Grayson County, VA. It moved in 1853 to Sturgill's, Ashe County, NC. Photo by Jeff Weaver June 1978
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Thompson_Cemetery__1.jpg767 viewsDescription: Ann Combs, Beam a descendant of the Thompson family of Surry County, North Carolina came down from Alexandria, Virginia in October of 2003. She and her husband came by to see me for a few minutes and then went by Devotion. The gatekeeper of the Reynolds estate allowed them to go inside to the Thompson cemetery.
Directions from the gate to the Thompson Homestead and Graveyard site:Get Permission at the gatehouse
Go through gate for 3 10ths miles on right, inside fence. Mitchell's River and the creek flow on either side.
Buried here are Martha Thompson wife of Hiram Higgins. (Hiram was killed in the Civil War and Martha was murdered by John Jack Mayes and burned in her house ) The cemetery is being kept in very good condition. Courtesy of Nanalee Wrenn nwrenn37@yadtel.net
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salt02.jpg767 viewsPostcard of Camp Red Rocks, above Saltville. This was an artist camp for artistically talented boys which operated in the late 1930s.
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