Skip to content

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 - Virginia Counties
wolfknob1905.jpg
wolfknob1905.jpg725 viewsFront: Dewey Perry, ?, Blake Spencer, Blannie Spencer, Jesse ?, Burlie Davis, Wayne Duvall, Clyde Testerman, ?, Laura Davis, Kyle Farmer, Grover Qwens
Second: Lee Weaver, Glen Reedy, jessie Baldwin,
? Baldwin, Phoebe ?, ?, Edra Farmer, Fred Young, Sylvia Osborne, ?, Laura Farmer, ?
Third: Lum Farmer, ?, ?, Donald Osborne, ?, ?, ?, Cleve Ingram, Bliss Young, Basil Lovelace, Pruner Weaver, Otis Osborne
Fourth: Mr. Jennings (teacher), Jettie Weaver, Susie Farmer, Lou Weaver, ?, Nelia Osborne, ?, ?, Monroe Davis
Fifth: Gid Weaver, Gaither Kilby, ?, ?, ?, Zon Richardson, Reg Richardson, Luther Testerman, Harvey Owens
Sixth: Bertie Lovelace, Winnie Owens, ?, Bryan ?, Ina Owens, ?, Esther Lovelace, ?, Laura Duvall, Serina Weaver, Theodore Spencer, Delia Osborne, ?, ?, Harvey Owens' wife.
People are separated by commas. The ?'s are unidentified.
Courtesy of Eleanor Jo Cox ejcox@naxs.com
electionday1974.jpg
electionday1974.jpg725 viewsThis photo by Don Smith shows some of the local officials standing around at Election Day in 1974. Courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
waltonfurnaceUMC.jpg
Walton's Furnace - Walton's Furnace United Methodist Church725 viewsPhoto by Shawn Dunford, courtesy of David Arnold david.arnold@adelphia.net
mabrymillblacksmithshop.jpg
mabrymillblacksmithshop.jpg725 viewsMore information can be found at this brief website about Mabry Mill. This is from a 1970s sytle postcard.
wythevillesleetymorning1910.jpg
wythevillesleetymorning1910.jpg724 viewsThis is a circa 1910 postcard of a winter scene in Wytheville.
100_0150.jpg
Austinville - Fincastle Resolves Marker724 viewsTO MARK
THE SITE OF
THE LEAD MINES
AN IMPORTANT SOURCE OF AMMUNITION
TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
AND OF
THE COURTHOUSE OF FINCASTLE COUNTY
1772-1776
____
HERE ON JANUARY 20, 1775 THE COMMITTEE
OF SAFETY OF FINCASTLE COUNTY ADOPTED
RESOLUTIONS BOLDLY DECLARING THEIR DETER-
MINATION NEVER TO SURRENDER THE RIGHTS
AND PRIVILEDGES GRANTED TO THEM AS VIRGINIANS
CLOSING WITH THIS ASSERTION:
"THESE ARE OUR REAL THOUGH UNPOLISHED
SENTIMENTS OF LIBERTY AND LOYALTY AND IN
THEM WE ARE RESOLVED TO LIVE AND DIE."
ERECTED BY STUART CHAPTER
AND BY WILDERNESS ROAD CHAPTER
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

THE SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA BICENTENIAL COMMITTEE
COMMEMORATED AT FORT CHISWELL, JANUARY 19, 1975,
THE WORK OF THE FINCASTLE COUNTY COMMITTEE OF SAFETY
WHOSE NAMES FOLLOW:
CHARLES CUMMINGS, WILLIAM PRESTON, WILLIAM CHRISTIAN,
STEPHEN TRIGG, ARTHUR CAMPBELL, WILLIAM INGLES,
WALTER CROCKETT, JOHN MONTGOMERY, JAMES McGAVOCK,
WILLIAM CAMPBELL, THOMAS MADISON, DANIEL SMITH,
WILLIAM RUSSELL, EVAN SHELBY, AND WILLIAM EDMUNDSON.

Photo December 27, 2006 by David Arnold david.arnold@adelphia.net
allisomgap21964.jpg
Allison Gap - Bird's Eye view724 viewsThis February 1964 phto was taken bt Myrl Dunham, Courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
000_0036.jpg
000_0036.jpg723 viewsThis statue is located in Elizabeth Cemetery in Saltville.
graysonmill.jpg
graysonmill.jpg723 viewsThis image was made in the 1890s.
waltonfurnace2.jpg
Walton Furnace723 viewsPhoto by Shawn Dunford, courtesy of David Arnold daviv.arnold@adelphia.net
wytheville0001-1956.jpg
wytheville0001-1956.jpg722 viewsThis is a postcard view of Wytheville from 1956. Courtesy of Steve Grubb steppen_dawg@yahoo.com
wellfields1910c.jpg
Saltville - Well Fields722 viewsTAKEN FROM THE FRONT PORCH OF THE M. S. DUNHAM HOUSE ON WEST MAIN / SALTVILLE, VA. / CIRCA 1910

FROM THE DUNHAM COLLECTION Courtesy of Don Smithdsmith1043@comcast.net


2351 files on 196 page(s) 36