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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.


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hillsvilletragedy.jpg915 viewsThis postcard is from an image made the day following the massacre in the court house.
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hwy121hillsville.jpg860 viewsThis view made in the early 1930s shows Highway 121 approaching Hillsville. I presume that this is now highway 221.
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Laurel Fork - John Carroll Historical Marker754 viewsPhoto by David Allen Rutherford. Courtesy of David Arnold david-arnold@comcast.net
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Laurel Fork - Laurel Fork Bank732 viewsPhoto by David Allen Rutherford. Courtesy of David Arnold david-arnold@comcast.net
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Coulson Church Road - Llama954 viewsThis is one of the ugliest horses that I've ever seen! ;-)
Coulson Ch. Rd., Carroll Co. Photo by Shawn Dunford. Courtesyof David Arnold david-arnold@comcast.net
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millongalaxline.jpg973 viewsThis photo is from the early 20th century.
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moonshinestill.jpg1076 viewsThis circa 1910 photo shows Baldwin-Felts Detectives with a siezed moonshine still.
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nuckollsdrug.jpg866 viewsThis is a mid-1920s postcard of the interior of Nuckolls Drug Store in Hillsville.
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oxenfancygap.jpg900 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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Fancy Gap - Sidna Allen House850 viewsThis photo taken May 20, 2007 by Jeff Weaver shows this once elegant house fallen on hard times.
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pyrrhotitemine.jpg901 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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sidnaallenhouse.jpg1194 viewsReal photo postcard taken ca. 1915, right after the Carroll County Tragedy.
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