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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.


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100_1664~0.jpg450 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, April 23, 2006. This church is located on highway 16, just north of Hungry Mother Park.
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100_1827.jpg450 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, November 1, 2006.
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100_1881.jpg450 viewsThe 1908 Grayson County Court House is in the foreground, and the new court house is in the background. Photo November 29, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.
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Independence - Vault Museum450 viewsAnother shot of the contents of the Vault Museum in the 1908 Grayson County Court House. Photo May 11, 2007 by Jeff Weaver.
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Fox - Fox Creek Primitive Baptist Church Historical Marker450 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, May 30, 2007.
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Bridle Creek - Grace Freewill Baptist Church450 viewsLocated on the south side of U.S. 58, Grace Freewill Baptist Church is a new comer to the Grayson County faith community, having been founded about 1998. Photo June 8, 2007 by Jeff Weaver.
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Brumley Gap - Sycamore Bridge450 viewsSYCAMORE BRIDGE / NORTH FORK OF HOLSTON / WASHINGTON CO., VA. / FEBRUARY 20, 2008 Courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1-43@comcast.net
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East Bound Freight450 viewsThis East Bound Norfolk and Southern was taken at Meadowview, Virginia by Don Smith on April 18, 2008.
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Sketch450 viewsDuring the first 90 years of Dickenson County's existence, the time period between 1880 and 1970, there evolved over one hundred identifiable communities, the nuclei of which consisted of any or all of the following: a one or two room school, a post office, a store, and a church. Sometimes the school served as a church or vice versa. The last rural post office in the county, Darwin, was discontinued in 1963. The last two rural schools, Dog Branch and Yates, closed in 1970. Very few country stores remain in
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abingdon1846.jpg449 viewsThis sketch of Abingdon was first published in Henry Howe's 1846 Description of Virginia.
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Picture 125.jpg449 viewsPhoto May 1, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.
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Picture 140~1.jpg449 viewsThis church occupies the former site of Young's Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church. Photo May 1, 2006 by Jeff Weaver.
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