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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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pics 181.jpg465 viewsThis photo shows salt-making 1860 style. Jim Boardwine was kind enough to do this demonstration for this event, September 30, 2006.
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100_1875.jpg465 viewsThis building housed the famous Troutdale Dining Room at one time. Photo November 10, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.
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Christiansburg - Christiansburg Presbyterian Church465 viewsFrom a 1940s postcard. Their website may be found by clicking here.
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smethportextactco.jpg464 viewsThis very poor quality image is of the Smethport Extract Company made about 1918. The Smethport Extract company, a Pennsylvania firm, located in Ashe County, NC and made products from tan bark.
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vpiaerial.jpg464 viewsThis is a 1930-45 era aerial view of the Virginia Tech Campus.
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pics 149.jpg464 viewsThis group is TrueGrass, a bluegrass band, performing at the 2006 Chilhowie Apple Festival on September 26, 2006. Photo by Jeff Weaver.
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Blacksburg - Hokie Nation464 viewsIn Memoriam to the 32 students killed April 16, 2007.
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Radford - Radford Normal School464 viewsThis 1917 postcard shows the proposed location for the women's extension from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and that new school is now known as Radford University.
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Volney - Volney Baptist Church463 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, March 31, 2006.
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lester40.jpg463 viewsAnother image of George Lester wearing U.S. Army uniform in World War I.
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mtairy1910.jpg463 viewsThis is another view of Main Street in Mount Airy from 1910.
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Konnarock - Whitetop Railroad463 viewsThis is a circa 1920 postcard view shows the railroad to Whitetop between Konnarock and Damascus, VA.
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