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 Boone - Black Bear Trail426 viewsFrom a 1930s postcard. This is now US 321 from Boone to Blowing Rock.
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 Blwong Rock - Lake on the Cone Estate425 viewsPostmarked August `1930, this postcard shows the lake on the Moses Cone Estate near Blowing Rock.
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 boonelutheran.jpg424 viewsThis postcard view dates to 1930-45. This church is located at the intersection of King Street and Blowing Rock Road.
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 PICT0017.JPG424 viewsThis school is in western Watauga County, near the Johnson County, TN line. Photo by Jeff Weaver, April 28, 2006.
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 tweetsie.jpg423 viewsTheme park near Blowing Rock using the old East Tennessee and Western North Carolina railroad equipment. The ET&WNC is locally known as the "Eat Taters and Wear No Clothes Railroad"
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 pics 171.jpg422 viewsPhoto September 27, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.
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 blackbearmotel.jpg421 viewsThis view is probably from the 1950s.
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 pics 098.jpg421 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, Spring 2006.
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 100_1774.jpg421 viewsPhoto October 20, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.
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 Blowing Rock - Glen Burnie Falls419 viewsThis is from a postcard which was mailed in 1911.
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 boonemountainmotel.jpg418 viewsThis 1950s postcard depicts the Mountain Motel in Boone. This type of motel was popular in the 1950s and 1960s as more and more families began to travel around the country.
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Email: graysoncountyhistoricalsociety@gmail.com

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Independence, VA 24348

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Independence, VA 24348

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The Grayson County Virginia Heritage Foundation is established to promote, preserve, and educate the members and public about the cultural and family heritages of Grayson County, Virginia. We are a public charity under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

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