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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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252 viewsThese children are Luna, Ruby and Glen Russell, children of Steve and Josie Russell of Flat Ridge, taken about 1917. Ruby and Glen were later infected with polio. Ruby survived with paralysis, but Glen did not survive.
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The Big Oak Tree278 viewsThis oak tree stood at the intersection of Guffy Road (now Big Oak Lane) and Hwy 601, at the farm of Grover Cleveland Russell. Martha Luticia Ross Russell married James Fleming Russell and moved to the farm just after the Civil war and she said that the oak tree was the size of a stove pipe when she moved there. This photo was taken by Pamela Russell Kepley about 1975.
   
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