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100_1690.jpg499 viewsThis building once housed the Broadford Elementary School. It is currently used as some type of church. Photo April 23, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.
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Picture 155.jpg499 viewsPhoto May 1, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.
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Picture 063~0.jpg499 viewsThis Church, located on a steep bank once housed a Methodist and Baptist congregation, principally African-American in ethnographic terms. Photo May 3, 2006 by Jeff Weaver
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DUKEENERGYGASLINE035.jpg499 viewsLOOKING SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE LITTLE VALLEY / TANNERSVILLE AREA. THE GAS LINE WILL CROSS THE EAST END OF FLAT TOP MOUNTAIN...THEN CROSS TANNERSVILLE AND BRUSHY MOUNTAIN...CROSS RICH VALLEY AND THEN WALKER MOUNTAIN AND HOOK UP WITH THE EAST TENNESSEE GAS LINE NEAR I-81 BETWEEN CHILHOWIE AND MARION. THE LINE IS UNUSUAL IN THAT IT IS RUNNING NORTH-SOUTH. MOST FOLLOW THE VALLEY FLOORS IN A SOUTHWEST-NORTHEAST DIRECTION.
Courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
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vpipreshouse.jpg499 viewsFrom a circa 1920 postcard.
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galaxfun1973.jpg499 viewsThis 1973 photo from the National Park Service Historic Photographic Collection shows some boys having fun in the summer near the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Galax, Virginia.
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100_1884.jpg499 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, November 29, 2006.
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St. Clair's Bottom - St. Clair's Bottom Primitive Baptist Church499 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, May 2006.
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100_1938.jpg499 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, January 24, 2007
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Fries - Fries Theater499 viewsPhoto February 2007 by Jeff Weaver
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Rugby - Osborne General Store499 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, June 20, 2007.
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Alvarado - Railroad Trestle499 viewsA RAILROAD FROM ABINGDON, VA. LINKING SEVERAL SMALL TOWNS AND COMMUNITIES WAS STARTED IN THE 1880s. BY 1918 IT RAN FROM ABINGDON TO ELKLAND, N. C. WHICH IS NOW CALLED TODD. DAMASCUS, TAYLOR'S VALLEY, GREEN COVE AND WHITE TOP WERE AMONG THE STOPS ON IT'S ROUTE. THERE WERE 100 TRESTLES AND BRIDGES ON THE RAIL LINE.
THE VIRGINIA CREEPER WAS STEAM POWERED AND HAULED FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS. THE STEAM ENGINE WAS REPLACED BY N&W IN 1956 WITH A DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE. IT CONTINUED IN OPERATION UNTIL MARCH 31, 1977 WHEN THE LAST TRAIN RAN. THE ROADBED HAS BEEN CONVERTED TO A VERY POPULAR HIKING-BIKING TRAIL. PICTURED IS THE TRESTLE AT THE HEADWATERS OF SOUTH HOLSTON LAKE WHERE THE MIDDLE AND SOUTH FORKS OFTHE HOLSTON RIVER MEET. Courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
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