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 wythevillehs1910.jpg815 viewsThis post card dates from about 1910.
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 000_0729.JPG815 viewsThis is an overlook of the scene of the principal battle of Saltville, October 2, 1864. Note the earthworks at the edge of the tree line about middle of the image. Photo by Jeff Weaver, June 2005.
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 Saltville - Hotel Saltville Being razed,June 1964815 viewsTHE ONE STORY BUILDING ON THE LEFT WAS CALLED THE HOTEL ANNEX.

LOCATED AT EAST MAIN AND FIRST AVENUE. Courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
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 Chilhowie - Town Hall China Company813 viewsFrom a late 1930s postcard. Courtesy of Edna Bonham Love.
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 mphendersonstore.jpg812 viewsJohn Porter photograph from the late 1930s.
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 tottenchester.jpg811 viewsTHIS IS CHESTER TOTTEN CRUISING THE PARKING LOT IN HIS PINK AND CREAM '59 LINCOLN CONVERTIBLE IN MARCH OF 1963.

Courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
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 pulaskihs.jpg810 viewsThis post card was postmarked in 1949.
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 WHITEROCKSOLIN244.jpg810 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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 SEPT6BEN888.jpg810 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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 saltvillefootball1930s.jpg809 viewsThis is a photo of the 1937 Saltville Football team by John Porter.
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 Chilhowie - Apple Exhibit809 viewsThis photo courtesy of Edna Bonham Love shows the 1916 exhibition that H. L. Bonham made for the Smyth County Fair. Shown are a variety of apples and other agricultural products.
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 floydnikelmines.jpg808 viewsGeneral view of the main opening for nickel ore on Lick Fork, near Hemlock, Floyd County, Virginia. Owned by the Virginia Nickel Corporation. Photo circa. 1905.
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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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