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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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Boone - Black Bear Trail245 viewsFrom a 1930s postcard. This is now US 321 from Boone to Blowing Rock.Dec 27, 2007
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Boone - Watauga Handcraft Center308 viewsFrom a 1960s browntone postcard.Dec 27, 2007
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Blowing Rock - Country Club247 viewsFrom a 1940s post card.Dec 27, 2007
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Blwong Rock - Lake on the Cone Estate262 viewsPostmarked August `1930, this postcard shows the lake on the Moses Cone Estate near Blowing Rock.Dec 27, 2007
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Blowing Rock - The Palace at Tweetsie259 viewsThis 1960s postcard shows the dance hall girls at Tweetsie's "The Palace." On a visit there in the early 1960s one of these girls planted a big old kiss on my Dad causing him no little amount of grief, although he had nothing to do with it.Dec 27, 2007
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Perkins, Clarence, Lizzie, Ed783 viewsHere is Clarence, Lizzie, Ed and unknown Perkins. Lizzie is Roscoe Holdaway's wife. Cute picture. Courtesy of Cathy Bell cjbell47@goldenwest.netDec 27, 2007
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Hollars, Erwin and Mamie Weaver315 viewsErwin Hollars and Mamie Weaver Hollars.
royweaver@bellsouth.net
Dec 27, 2007
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Weaver, Eli Family327 viewsChildren of Eli Weaver top Myra Weaver, John Weaver
Melinda Weaver, Ruth Weaver,Amand Weaver holding
baby Jarvis Greene, Molly Weaver. Courtesy of Roy Weaver royweaver@bellsouth.net
Dec 27, 2007
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Castle, Will and Ruth Weaver Castle.385 viewsWill Castle and Ruth Weaver Castle 1918. Courtesy of Roy Weaver royweaver@bellsouth.netDec 27, 2007
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Weaver, Eli426 viewsEli Weaver, son of Joshua Weaver and Sallie Ashley, who moved to Watauga County and died there in the 1870s. Courtesy of Roy Weaver royweaver@bellsouth.netDec 27, 2007
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Weaver, Elize and Ashbury300 views Elize and Ashbury Weaver May 1918. Courtesy of Roy Weaver royweaver@bellsouth.net
Dec 27, 2007
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Saltville - May Day719 viewsMAY DAY CELEBRATION / SALTVILLE, VA. SCHOOLS / MID 1940s. Courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.netDec 27, 2007
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