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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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furnaceneargalax.jpg1132 viewscirca. 1900.
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492.jpg1131 viewsPhoto shows Cora Lee Richardson Phipps holding grandson Jeffrey Weaver.
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NelsonandEasterElizabethHamm.jpg1130 viewsNelson Ham and 2nd wife Easter Elizabeth Blevins Ham. This photo is courtesy of Mary Ann Talbott. matalbott@seidata.com
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wyattelihu.jpg1130 viewsThis is my great grandfather. elihu wyatt b. sept.6,1861 and died March 30, 1929. He was a general merchant and justice of the peace. he lived in the Ripshin community of Ashe County. the home he built still stands. thanks for helping me.
Donald Blevins, Hudson, NC ncdon@charter.net.
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bookerphipps2.jpg1129 viewsCourtesy of Heather Sexton.
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phippsjames1.jpg1124 viewsJames Phipps was the son of Nathan Phipps and his first wife Martha Carolina Hart. Accused of murder at Healing Springs hotel, he "went west."
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hbmiller.jpg1124 viewsThis photo of Harrison Baker Miller was made while he was serving in Company A, 26th North Carolina Infantry in the Civil War. He later became a Primitive Baptist minister and moved to St. Clair's Bottom in Smyth County, Virginia.
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blankenshipnancyweaver.jpg1122 viewsBorn June 11, 1857 on Fees Ridge to Andrew Weaver and Malinda Weaver. Married James Andrew Blankenship in Ashe County, NC on March 10, 1873, and then moved to Mercer County, WV. Buried in the Cline Cemetery, Spanishburg, WV. Photo Courtesy of Walt Blankenship poochietex@yahoo.com
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Mandywithchildren.jpg1119 viewsAmanda Campbell Lewis with children.
boy standing- Jacob Harvey
girl standing-Emmer
boy in hat- Andy
girl on Andy's lap-Genealia
baby- Henry
Courtesy of Judy Lenderman rel1@bellsouth.net.
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197.jpg1118 viewsThese are the children of James Estil Sturgill and Ella Ingram Sturgill. This photo was taken August 1958 when visiting nephew Clarence Weaver in Statesville, NC. Left to right, Bill Sturgill, Marvin Spencer, Ersa Dell Sturgill Gamble, Cora Sturgill Frazier, Lanta Sturgill Spencer and Themla Spencer McCraw.
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Blevins, Judson1118 viewsJudson Blevins (1905-1976) was the son of Jeter C. Blevins and Rosa Sage. This photo was taken while he was a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He became a physician and mpved to New Jersey and severed all ties with the family in Ashe County.
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cranberrysingingschool.jpg1114 viewsThis photograph dates to the early 20th century.
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