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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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Worley_scasket.jpg497 viewsCourtesy of Linda Viel viel@comcast.net
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Konnarock - The Road Less Travelled497 viewsThis is Fairwood Road between Konnarock and Troutdale. It has been designated a Virginia Scenia byway. Photo by Jeff Weaver, June 3, 2007.
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Crumpler - J & B's Trout Pond497 viewsThis pond is on the grounds of Shatley Springs restaurant. Photo by Jeff Weaver, June 6, 2007.
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Groseclose - Settler's Musuem of Southwest Virginia497 viewsPhoto July 13, 2007 by Jeff Weaver.
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Comers Rock - Elk Creek Community Center497 viewsFormerly the Machine shop for the Elk Creek High School, photo by Jeff Weaver March 21, 2008.
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Minnie,Ossie,Wade,Ad,IdaBraySmith0001.jpg496 viewsThis is a photo of descendants of Mary Elizabeth Weaver Smith and James Latham Smith. I will give you their names, left to right, and their relationship to Mary and James.

Minnie Catherine Smith Peaks, b.9-29-1880, d.2-9-1953, daughter, buried at Weaver Union Church Cemetery, Bristol, Sullivan County, TN
Ossie Belle Smith Thacker, b.8-1-1896, d.6-21-2004, granddaughter, buried at Otes Church Cemetery, Bulls Gap, Hawkins County, TN
Wade Palhoun Smith, b.2-6-1875, d.2-23-1944, son, buried in Bluff City, Sullivan County, TN
Darcus Adalaide Smith Cole, b.12-21-1871, d.2-14-1963, buried at Weaver Union Church Cemetery, Bristol, Sullivan County, TN
Ida Bray Smith, wife of Wade Palhoun Smith (I don't have her birth/death dates at this time)

Mary Elizabeth Weaver Smith and James Latham Smith lived in the area known as Vance's Tank (Bristol area), Sullivan County, TN. Mary Elizabeth was born in Bristol, Sullivan County, TN. This is where their children were born.

I would guesstimate the photo is in the late 1930s or early 1940s, because Wade died in 1944.

Courtesy of Debi Coe
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Phipps, Vance496 viewsVance Phipps, in the center of the photo, was the son of Nathaniel Phipps and Martha Carolina Hart. He was born and raised in the Weaver's Ford section of Ashe County, NC. He was accused of murder, however, and fled the jurisdiction because he felt he couldn't get a fair trial. This photo was taken in Boone County, Iowa around 1900.
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lester9.jpg496 viewsPhoto circa. 1920.
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hungrymotherfishing.jpg496 viewsBoys bass fishing in Hungry Mother Lake is from a 1940s era linen postcard.
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whitetopfestival1933a.jpg496 viewsThis photo shows some of the estimated 20,000 visitors to this event.
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pics 058.jpg496 viewsPhoto September 13, 2006 by Jeff Weaver, despite the sign over the door, this church was organized in October 1858.
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elizabethtonsnow.jpg496 viewsThis 1944 photo shows Jim Fletcher cleaning his windshield in a snowstorm in Elizabethton, Tennessee.
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