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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.


Most viewed - North Carolina Counties
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cranberrypbc~0.jpg395 viewsPhoto September 10, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.
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pics 135.jpg394 viewsThis congregation dates to about 1875. This meeting house was constructed in the 1930s. Photo June 26, 2007 by Jeff Weaver.
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wataugacourthouse.jpg393 viewsThis structure is now gone, this photo from the late 1930s.
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pics 019.jpg392 viewsPhoto September 10, 2006 by Jeff Weaver. Tobacco fields were once common in North Carolina's Lost Provinces, however, they are not so much in evidence as they once were.
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Blowing Rock - Tweetsie Amusement Park392 viewsThis 1960s postcard shows an overview of the Tweetsie Amusement Park between Boone and Blowing Rock, NC.
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Courthouse Square, Lenoir, North Carolina392 views
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blowingrock40.jpg391 viewsThis is a 1940s postcard of Main Street in Blowing Rock.
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Stone Mountain - View to the East391 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver May 20, 2007.
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Foscoe - Cabbage Field391 viewsIN the 1960s, Watauga County was home to a Kraut cannery, which generated several cabbage fields.
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Confederate Monument, Lenoir, North Carolina391 views
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holycross.jpg390 viewsThis is from a 1932 postcard.
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Weaver - The William Weaver, Sr. grave marker. 390 viewsNOTE: William Weaver, Sr. did not serve in the Continental Line during the Revolution; the error was made by the Veteran's Administration in preparing the marker. Robert Bower Weaver submitted the application based on
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