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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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100_1569.jpg969 viewsPhoto April 16, 2006 by Jeff Weaver
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Mulberry - Cross Roads Primitive Baptist Church965 viewsThis church was established in 1850. Photo by Jeff Weaver, March 2007.
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100_1400.jpg964 viewsYou may see what this congregation is about at their website. Photo March 31, 2006 by Jeff Weaver
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HeltonSchool(ca1915-20).jpg957 viewsMy great-grandfather Wade Jones Sr. is one of the teachers in this photo. He is on left with little black bowtie near edge of window. I don;t know when the picture was taken but from looking at him I would suggest 1915-20, maybe up to 1925. I don;t know any of the others. Courtesy of Danny Miller millerd@fuse.net
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100_1396.jpg949 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, March 31, 2006.
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heltonss.jpg947 viewsThis is a Sunday school photo, probably taken around 1915 if the woman sitting top center with her arm draped over the shoulder of a big-eared son is, indeed, Ada Littlewood Francis (oldest son had stick-out ears). The picture was taken on the front steps of Herbert and Hannah Littlewood's home on Helton Creek. Courtesy of Emily Kilby.
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4879.jpg946 viewsMArkers for Martha Jane and Defina Davis in the Jont Mountain Davis Cemetery, Ashe County, NC. Courtesy of jcamel 232002
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hashcabin1.jpg945 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, Summer 2003.
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100_1594.jpg943 viewsThis church occupies the same location was the Presbyterian Church which was reported here in 1773. A Primitive Baptist Church also occupied this spot from the early 1800s until about 1900, when this building was constructed. Photo April 16, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.
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Unknown - Feed Mixing941 viewsThis 1929 image shows two Ashe County, NC farmers, (names unknown) mixing feed for dairy cattle. Courtesy of the Archives of North Carolina State University.
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Thomas Caudill House940 viewsThe House of Thomas Caudill, still standing in 2003. Built ca. 1865. Courtesy of Nanalee Wrenn
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100_1580.jpg940 viewsOK, its not much of a falls, more like rapids, but it is called the Falls of the North Fork. Photo by Jeff Weaver, April 16, 2006.
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