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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 - New River Valley People
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brownlow.jpg346 viewsNative of Wythe County, Virginia, Parson Brownlow made his mark on history as firely abolitionist Methodist minister in Knoxville, Tennessee; and reconstruction governor of Tennessee.
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Walt Whittaker341 views
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Unidentified337 views
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whitmanja.jpg335 viewsBorn in Cripple Creek Valley April 29, 1869, son of Andrew Clay Whitman, grandson of David Whitman. J. A. Whitman was the publisher of the Southwest Virginia Enterprise, a newspaper.
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Unidentified334 views
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A. A.V. K. Fisher333 views
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Unidentified329 views
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heuserhm.jpg314 viewsBorn Feb. 28, 1867, in Wytheville, Virginia, son of Guido A. Heuser. Attorney at Wytheville. Photo from 1929.
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Emily Frances (Scott) Cornett visiting Galveston, TX - 1921314 viewsEmily (William Washington Cornett's 2nd wife) came from Alton, KS a few years after William's death to stay the winter with her Son, John Winton Cornett and his sons in El Campo, TX. Here she is seen with William Delany Cornett and his girlfriend in front of the Galveston seawall, built after the 1900 storm that ravaged the town.
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William WashingtonCornett visiting Grayson in 1912246 viewsWilliam Washington Cornett, along with his daughter from his first marriage, Leona Mitchell Cornett (left), her daughter Bertha Nuckolls (right), and Bertha’s nephew (William’s great grandson) Glen Pless, taken in Grayson County 1912. William was living in Fairport, Kansas at the time. William had enlisted with the Confederate army and fought at the first battle of the war, at Manassas, aka Bull Run.
   
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