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 homecoming1966.jpg842 viewsFROM LEFT...JEANNIE BRANNON, JANET WERTZ, AND SARAH GROSS...HOMECOMING...OCTOBER 1966.... Courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
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 maxmeadowsfurnace.jpg841 viewsFrom a mid-19th century engraving.
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 Wythevill - St. John's Episcopal Church841 viewsThis postcard image dates from 1911,
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 Saltville - Governmnet Plant Area840 viewsGOVERNMENT PLANT AND BROADY BOTTOM AREAS / APRIL 1969

THE PLOWED AREA AT RIGHT CENTER IS WHERE THE NORTHFORK MANOR PROJECT WOULD BE BUILT...THE AREA NEAR THE SILOS AND RESERVOIR IS WHERE THE ELIZABETH CEMETERY WAS ENLARGED TO IN 1986.

THE BUILDING AT UPPER LEFT UNDER CONSTRUCTION WOULD BECOME KENROSE MFG. AND LATER, ACCO. Courtesy of Don Smith[email]dsmith1043@comcast.net[/emai]
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 WHITEROCKSOLIN244.jpg839 viewsTHIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN IN JUNE OF 1972 FROM THE WEST END OF FLATTOP MOUNTAIN ON AN OUTCROPPING KNOWN AS THE WHITE ROCKS.
Courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
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 Cox's Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery839 viewsPhoto Summer 2005 by Jeff Weaver.
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 queensknob.jpg839 viewsFrom a circa 1920 postcard.
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 bridleckboardinghouse.jpg838 viewsThis image was made circa. 1900. Courtesy of the Grayson County Historical Society, Independence, Virginia.
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 SEPT6BEN888.jpg838 viewsPICTURE WAS TAKEN ON THE TRACK FIELD BEHIND THE HIGH SCHOOL IN FEBRUARY OF 1968... NOT LONG BEFORE THE BUCKET LINE WAS CLOSED AND THE LIMESTONE HAULED FROM THE QUARRY IN BIG GREEN TRUCKS. Courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
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 eastmain41966.jpg838 viewsThis is a Don Smith Photo dsmith1043@comcast.net and shows the East Main Street/Buckeye Street Area in April 1966.
ftchismon.jpg
 ftchismon.jpg837 viewsThis is a monument at the location of Fort Chiswell, a few miles north of the town of Wytheville. From an old postcard.
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 w4.jpg837 viewsThis postcard dates from 1923.
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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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