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mtairyshack.jpg468 viewsThis image is shown on an early 20th century postcard.
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mtairywss.jpg338 viewsThis linen era postcard (1930-45) notes that this resort was in the "shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains."
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ncgranite.jpg357 viewsThis ca. 1900-1910 postcard shows some of the quarry work going on around Mount Airy at that time.
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pilotmtn.jpg385 viewsFrom an early 20th century postcard. An 1859 bookFisher's River Scenes and Characters contains much local humor.
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pilotmtn2.jpg320 viewsThis is a view of Pilot Mountain in the distance. Made in the 1950s.
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pineridgeinn.jpg344 viewsThis is from a 1960s postcard.
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pinnacleview.jpg351 viewsThis is the view from the top of Pilot Mountain
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Thompson_Cemetery__1.jpg570 viewsDescription: Ann Combs, Beam a descendant of the Thompson family of Surry County, North Carolina came down from Alexandria, Virginia in October of 2003. She and her husband came by to see me for a few minutes and then went by Devotion. The gatekeeper of the Reynolds estate allowed them to go inside to the Thompson cemetery.
Directions from the gate to the Thompson Homestead and Graveyard site:Get Permission at the gatehouse
Go through gate for 3 10ths miles on right, inside fence. Mitchell's River and the creek flow on either side.
Buried here are Martha Thompson wife of Hiram Higgins. (Hiram was killed in the Civil War and Martha was murdered by John Jack Mayes and burned in her house ) The cemetery is being kept in very good condition. Courtesy of Nanalee Wrenn nwrenn37@yadtel.net
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