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 hillsvilletragedy.jpg920 viewsThis postcard is from an image made the day following the massacre in the court house.
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 americanpigment.jpg919 viewsThis is a 1940 photo of the paint factory in Pulaski, Virginia.
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 campingonWhitetop.jpg916 viewsRelatives from Paterson, NJ, visiting Hannah Haigh Littlewood, of Helton, camped out on White Top during the 1920s. Courtesy of Emily Kilby erk44@verizon.net
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 Saltville - Bucket Line912 viewsThis 1950s postcard shows the bucket line running from the Worthy Mine to the town of Saltville.
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 pyrrhotitemine.jpg908 viewsGeneral View of the pyrrhotite vein, "Great Gosan Lead" at "Great Outburst" near Chestnut Yard, Carroll County, VA. This photo is from Mineral Resources of Virginia published in 1907.
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 oxenfancygap.jpg906 viewsThis 1940 photo from the National Park Service Historic Photographic Collection shows a farmer and team of oxen. The oxen are pulling a sledge to break up clods in newly plowed ground.
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 Saltville - OK Barber Shop906 viewsFROM LEFT - DAN PUCKETT / ROY YONTZ / JOE VERNON / PETE FRYE

PHOTO COURTESY LORETTA FRYE CALLAWAY AND FRED AND PEGGY CRABTREE. Courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
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 Saltville - Town Museum905 viewsThis building was the old well field office that sat next to Highway 91 near the foot of Smokey Row across from the old Ford dealership in the Salt Park area. It was torn down and reassembled downtown in 1967 and now sits between the Post Office and the old Mathieson steam engines. Sepember 1967. Courtesy of Don Smith.
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 hillsville2.jpg901 viewsThis is taken from a 1930s postcard.
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 ruralretreatair.jpg900 viewsThis aerial view of Rural Retreat was made by Greear Studios in Wytheville, probably in the 1940s.
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 Mystery2.jpg899 viewsI don't know who is in this photo, I'm sure it was taken in Wythe County, though. Courtesy of Amy Bazar abazar2151@charter.net
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 gibboneyhallinn.jpg898 viewsThis is from an early 1940s postcard.
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