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 wellfields31965.jpg860 viewsBARN AT LEFT WOULD BECOME THE SALT KETTLE THEATRE IN 1973. BUILDING BEING RAZED IS AN OLD SALT HOUSE BUILT ON THE SITE OF THE GEORGIA SALT FURNACE. IT WAS USED FOR STORING SACKS AND BARRELS WHEN IT WAS A SALT HOUSE. WHEN IT WAS NO LONGER USED AS A SALT HOUSE, THE TOP FLOOR SERVED AS THE MEETING PLACE FOR WILLIAM KING MASONIC LODGE NO. 227 FROM 1901 UNTIL A NEW MASONIC LODGE WAS BUILT IN DOWNTOWN IN 1949. THE BOTTOM FLOOR WAS USED BY MATHIESON.

THE BUILDING AT RIGHT IS THE OLD AXTON CROSS LOADING TERMINAL.

Courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comast.net
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 TOWNOFSALTVILLE057.jpg859 viewsThis photo was taken by Don Smith {dsmith1043@comcast.net}April 13, 2007 at 3:35 p.m.
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 Saltville - Mathieson Alkali Works859 viewsThis ca.1910 image from the U.S.Geological Survey shows the Mathieson Alkali Works ca. 1910.
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 Baywood Store857 viewsThis photo summer 2005 by Jeff Weaver.
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 homecoming1966.jpg857 viewsFROM LEFT...JEANNIE BRANNON, JANET WERTZ, AND SARAH GROSS...HOMECOMING...OCTOBER 1966.... Courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
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 wytheville0001-1956.jpg856 viewsThis is a postcard view of Wytheville from 1956. Courtesy of Steve Grubb steppen_dawg@yahoo.com
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 chlorineplant.jpg856 viewsOLIN CHLORINE PLANT / ALLISON GAP / RED ROCK / SALTVILLE, VA. / APRIL 1969. Courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
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 Chilhowie - Town Hall China Company856 viewsFrom a late 1930s postcard. Courtesy of Edna Bonham Love.
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 Cox's Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery855 viewsPhoto Summer 2005 by Jeff Weaver.
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 eastmain41966.jpg855 viewsThis is a Don Smith Photo dsmith1043@comcast.net and shows the East Main Street/Buckeye Street Area in April 1966.
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 laborday1984.jpg855 viewsTHREE LOCAL SALTVILLE LADIES TAKING IN LABOR DAY 1984.
FROM LEFT / GLADYS MAIDEN, LENA SMITH, AND EVA MOORE.

PHOTO BY BRISTOL HERALD COURIER. Courtesy of Don Smithdsmith1043@comcast.net
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 Saltville - Brine Pump854 viewsThis is an August 1972 photo of a brine pump in the well fields, without its housing. Photo by Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
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