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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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lester14.jpg845 viewsUriah Lester is in the center left of this image.
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DUKEENERGYGASLINE035.jpg845 viewsLOOKING SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE LITTLE VALLEY / TANNERSVILLE AREA. THE GAS LINE WILL CROSS THE EAST END OF FLAT TOP MOUNTAIN...THEN CROSS TANNERSVILLE AND BRUSHY MOUNTAIN...CROSS RICH VALLEY AND THEN WALKER MOUNTAIN AND HOOK UP WITH THE EAST TENNESSEE GAS LINE NEAR I-81 BETWEEN CHILHOWIE AND MARION. THE LINE IS UNUSUAL IN THAT IT IS RUNNING NORTH-SOUTH. MOST FOLLOW THE VALLEY FLOORS IN A SOUTHWEST-NORTHEAST DIRECTION.

Courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
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weaverambrose.jpg845 viewsAmbrose McKinley Weaver (22Jan 1887-16 Jan 1978). Courtesy of Irene Baldwin ibaldi@erols.com
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pics 250.jpg845 viewsThis photo was taken October 11, 2006 by Jeff Weaver. This gravemarker is in the Howell Hill Community Cemetery.
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altamonthospital.jpg844 viewsThis real photo post card dates from the early 1930s.
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Foster Falls - Brick Church844 viewsTwo churches mentioned in Hannah Walton Sanders' Civil War era diary @ http://home.alltel.net/cjwalker/

A sign at the Old Brick Church states that the church was established in 1890, but that conflicts with her diary. I believe the congregation was established in 1890, but the building is much older and was more of a meeting house before being organized as a church.

Hannah Walton Sanders is connected with the Walton family for whom Walton's Furnace was named. Walton Furnace is located within a few hundred yards of Sanders Mine Road at it's intersection with Walton Furnace Road. Sander's Mine was operated by her husband.

Photo by Shawn Dunford. Courtesy of David Arnold david.arnold@adelphia.net
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1908 Courthouse843 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, September 2005. You might be interested in the Minutes of the Grayson County, Virginia Confederate Pension Board
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tazewellbev.jpg843 viewsThis postcard was made in the early part of the 20th century.
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greengable5.jpg843 viewsThis photo is by Scott Trent, 2004.
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wmwarren.jpg843 viewsWilliam Warren married Tarisa J. White, daughter of Spencer White and Elizabeth Kestner. I am trying to connect these Warrens to the Poynton Warrens. Courtesy of Barb Norvell. barbnor2@yahoo.com
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100_1566.jpg843 viewsThis is the old Riverside School, now Riverside Community Center, near St. Clair's Bottom. Photo April 14, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.
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midwaymay65.jpg843 viewsThis photo was taken May 1965 by Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
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