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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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Elk Garden - Icy Trees364 viewsThis photo was taken on Route 600 in Smyth County, VA Near the Grayson County, VA line on January 24, 2007 by Jeff Weaver. The ice is hanging on the trees here.
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Gamble, Ersa Dell Sturgill364 viewsErsa Dell Sturgill Gamble is shown here at her home in Kennett Square, PA. She was the daughter of James Estil Sturgill and Ella Ingram.
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Cumberland Knob - Fox Hunter's Paradise364 viewsOn the Blue Ridge Parkway. Photo by Jeff Weaver, May 20, 2007.
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Sketch364 viewsDuring the first 90 years of Dickenson County's existence, the time period between 1880 and 1970, there evolved over one hundred identifiable communities, the nuclei of which consisted of any or all of the following: a one or two room school, a post office, a store, and a church. Sometimes the school served as a church or vice versa. The last rural post office in the county, Darwin, was discontinued in 1963. The last two rural schools, Dog Branch and Yates, closed in 1970. Very few country stores remain in
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100_1631.jpg363 viewsThis is the view of the Middle Fork of the Holston River from Old Ebenezer Road, south of Marion. Photo April 23, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.
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Picture 152.jpg363 viewsPhoto May 1, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.
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galaxmethodist.jpg363 viewsFrom a 1930s postcard.
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pics 175~0.jpg363 viewsThis church was established in 1829 and named for Elder Drury Senter. Photo September 27, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.
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Major - Old Methodist Parsonage363 viewsBelieved to be the first Methodist Parsonage in Western Grayson County. Courtesy of Trula Fay Purkey.
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Roaring Gap - Antioch United Methodist Church363 viewsThis building was erected in 1895. Photo by Jeff Weaver, May 20, 2007.
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Mouth of Wilson - Barn on a Hill363 viewsFolk memories of Ireland? Photo by Jeff Weaver June 2007.
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Blowing Rock - Camp Yonolosse363 viewsThis circa 1915 real photo postcard shows a group of early tourists riding horseback at Camp Yonolosse, near Blowing Rock.
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