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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 - North Carolina Counties
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mtairypresby.jpg276 viewsThis image was created about 1910.
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Blowing Rock - Lake Chetola276 viewsThis image is from a 1920s postcard.
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galaxatblowingrock.jpg273 viewsThis is from an early 1900s postcard.
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tweetsie.jpg273 viewsTheme park near Blowing Rock using the old East Tennessee and Western North Carolina railroad equipment. The ET&WNC is locally known as the "Eat Taters and Wear No Clothes Railroad"
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Boone - Bird's Eye View273 viewsThis is a hand water-colored postcard showing Boone and Howards Knob, executed about 1910.
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Foscoe - Cabbage Field273 viewsIN the 1960s, Watauga County was home to a Kraut cannery, which generated several cabbage fields.
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noseendrock.jpg272 viewsFrom a 1940s era linen postcard.
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Confederate Monument, Lenoir, North Carolina271 views
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Bank of North Wilkesboro, ca. 1930269 views
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Kensington Heights, Wilkesboro, North Carolina, ca. 1910269 views
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PICT0017.JPG267 viewsThis school is in western Watauga County, near the Johnson County, TN line. Photo by Jeff Weaver, April 28, 2006.
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blowrock1925.jpg266 viewsThis image was taken from a postcard, circa 1925.
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