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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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Sparta015.jpg484 viewsTHE SPENCERS...THORNTON, EMILY, AND MARTHA. Photo January 2006 by Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net.
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pocahontascem1920.jpg484 viewsThis is a circa 1920 postcard view.
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vatechchapel1908.jpg484 viewsThis chapel at Virginia Tech is shown in a 1908 postcard.
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commercehallVPI.jpg484 viewsThis is from a 1940s postcard.
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100_1834.jpg484 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, November 1, 2006.
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Laurel Springs - Myers Motor Court484 viewsThis postcard of a motel is from the 1950s.
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Haw Orchard - Gravemaker for Enoch Cicero Osborne484 viewsThis gravesite is in the Haw Orchard Cemetery. Uncle Cicero didn't want a "Store bought tombstone." Photo June 13, 2007 by Jeff Weaver.
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West Jefferson - Main Street484 viewsThis image shows Main Street in West Jefferson from Radio Hill. Photo by Jeff Weaver, July 1, 2007.
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Hollars, Erwin and Mamie Weaver484 viewsErwin Hollars and Mamie Weaver Hollars.
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mtairywss.jpg483 viewsThis linen era postcard (1930-45) notes that this resort was in the "shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains."
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glade1860.jpg483 viewsThis wood cut purports to show the village of Glade Spring ca. 1840. The mountain in the background is Whitetop, perhaps exaggerated.
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BluemontHotel1938.jpg483 viewsThis is from a postcard mailed in 1938.
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