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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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100_1922.jpg628 viewsAnother December 8, 2006 shot of AEP moving a massive transformer through the streets of Saltville.
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Plasterco - Trestle at Tin Bridge Hollow.628 viewsNEW BRIDGE WAS REPLACING OLD ONE ON RIGHT / TIN BRIDGE / NEAR PLASTERCO, VA. / CIRCA 1907. Courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
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Mouth of Wilson - Potato Creek Methodist Church Interior628 viewsCourtesy of Misty Martin
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John Paul Jones628 viewsPortrait of John Paul Jones (1747-1792) by Charles Wilson Peale
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barracksvpi1940.jpg627 viewsFrom a postcard.
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hotelarcher.jpg627 viewsThis is a 1908 view of the Hotel Archer.
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friesrrbridge1922.jpg627 viewsThis is a January 1922 photo showing the Norfolk and Western Railroad Bridge over New River near Fries.
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cabincrkfalls.jpg627 viewsLocated in Grayson Highlands State Park.
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Elizabethton - Main Street627 viewsThis is from an early 1960s postcard.
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Saltville - Madam Russell Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South627 viewsThis postcard dates from the 1920s. Note the picket fence in the foreground which no longer is there.
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richvalleyfair.jpg626 viewsThis is a 1930s (from the cars) photo of the Rich Valley Fair.
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IMG_0187.jpg626 viewsThis shot shows the outdoor preaching stand at Mitchell's River Primitive Baptist Church.

Photo courtesy of Penne Sandbeck
Historic Architecture Group
HEU/PDEA
NCDOT
1583 MSC
Raleigh, NC 27699-1583
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