Skip to content

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.

Most viewed
youngschapelcem1~0.jpg
Mouth of Wilson - Young's Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery1251 viewsPhoto March 17, 2008 by Jeff Weaver
TOWNTELEAPRIL1968099.jpg
TOWNTELEAPRIL1968099.jpg1250 viewsThis April 1968 telephoto shot shows five Norfolk & Western diesel engines in Saltville and other railroad stock, as well as a view of West Main Street. Photo courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
Mara Etta.jpg
Mara Etta.jpg1250 viewsThis is Mara Etta McClure with her second husband Linville Price. She was the daughter of Henry Samuel McClure and Sarah "Leah" Howell. I do not know when this picute was taken. I do know that their daughter was born around 1885 and Mara died sometime after that. Courtesy of Pamiam12@aol.com
wytheunidschool.jpg
Maple Shade School1250 viewsThe Old Maple Shade School, constructed in Potato Creek Community (Mouth of Wilson PO) in 1913 by E.L. Robbins, Class for students were held here until 1948 . Someone set fire to the building in the early 1990's. Photo courtesy of David Arnold. Identification courtesy of Shirley Cox Gordon.
pricenancy.jpg
pricenancy.jpg1249 viewsThis photo shows in the back (left to right) Howard Price, Ed Wiles, and Blaine Weaver; in the front (left to right) Nancy Weaver Price, Martha Wiles and Luzilla Sturgill Weaver. Nancy Weaver Price was the daughter of Joshua Weaver, and Martha Lawrence. See the Ashe County, NC People albumn for some siblings. Photo courtesy of Peggy Sheets Manning, Lancaster, PA.
spencerwt1.jpg
spencerwt1.jpg1249 viewsWilliam Troy and Alice Osborne Spencer Family
Back: William Glen; Middle: Victor Franklin, William Troy, Cynthia Alice (Osborne), Charles Enoch; Front: Isaac Greeley, Blannie Emaline, Audrey Wave, John Blake, Humphrey Kilby. The picture was made in 1904 before Imogene Ollie was born.
Courtesy of Eleanor Jo Cox ejcox@naxs.com
heather1.jpg
heather1.jpg1248 viewsPhoto courtesy of Heather Sexton. She lived near Helton Creek in the Sturgill's Community of Ashe County.
ag10.jpg
American Self Raking Reaping Machine1248 views
spencerchildren.jpg
spencerchildren.jpg1247 viewsThis photo is courtesy of Heather Sexton. These were the children of Cicero Spencer and Jettie Osborne.

Elba, Marshall William, Ruth, Janice and Gladys Spencer
amandacoomes.jpg
amandacoomes.jpg1247 viewsCourtesy of Patience Northern.
100_1548.jpg
100_1548.jpg1247 viewsPhoto April 14, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.
wrightgeorgea.jpg
wrightgeorgea.jpg1247 viewsThis 1926 photo shows Chilhowie's Dr. George A. Wright (left) with an unidentified man after a bear hunt.
4754 files on 397 page(s) 46