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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 - Tennessee Counties & People
elizabethtonsnow.jpg
elizabethtonsnow.jpg493 viewsThis 1944 photo shows Jim Fletcher cleaning his windshield in a snowstorm in Elizabethton, Tennessee.
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Elizabethton - Main Street488 viewsThis is from an early 1960s postcard.
backbonerock1940.jpg
backbonerock1940.jpg486 viewsThis photo is circa 1940.
sholstonlake.jpg
Bristol, Tennessee - South Holston Lake484 viewsSouth Holston Lake taken by Don Smith on October 17, 2010.
wilburdam.jpg
wilburdam.jpg480 viewsThis 1950s postcard shows the Wilbur Dam under construction.
hardinhall.jpg
hardinhall.jpg478 viewsFrom a circa 1940 linen postcard.
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Elizabethton - Doe River Bridge472 viewsThis 1940s postcard shows the Doe River Bridge in Elizabethton at night.
bluffcityrrbridge.jpg
bluffcityrrbridge.jpg457 viewsThis is from a circa 1910 postcard.
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Bristol - Mayor Preston's Conference Room at Bristol Caverns441 viewsThis image is from a 1960s era postcard. Click here for their website.
butlerbridge.jpg
butlerbridge.jpg440 viewsThis is from a linen era (1930-45) postcard.
bristolaerial.jpg
bristolaerial.jpg439 viewsThis is from a circa 1940 postcard.
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100_1795.jpg431 viewsThis scene was taken on October 22, 2006 by Jeff Weaver on the Backbone Rock Falls Trail.
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