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Lunch hour at McCready School, 1938.

McCready School, 6th and 7th Grade unit on light. 1938.

View of Marion Main Street looking west from hospital hill. c. 1900

First Smyth County Museum in old one room school house.

View of lake. Lake not identified.

Christening of John S. Apperson, Jr.'s boat at Dollar Island Harbor, New York. Used water from Staley's Creek, Mairon, Va. Summer 1927.

The Carner Family. Ernest Jackson Carner, James Henry Carner, Lauuna Carner, Mrs Nattie Olivia Copenhaver Carner, Elma Dicjy Carner. 1888.

Norfolk and Western Railroad Water Tank, Atkins, Virginia.

The Town House ruins, Chilhowie, Virginia. Photo, 1960.

Steffey hand_hewn log house. Groseclose, Virginia. 1939.

Old double log barn in Rich Valley. The space through the center servers as a wagon shed. IT is covered with hand-made clapboard shingles. The garden spot in fron is fenced with hand-rived palings. 1939.

Old stacked rock fence ("staked and rider") in Rich Valley.

Abijah Thomas' octagonal house, built about 1850. Thomas Bridge Area.

Sin Clair Bottom Primitive Baptist Church, organizard by A. Baker in 1791 with 45 members. First church was made of logs. Present church was built in 1851. It contains a balcony at the rear where slaves sat.

Miller Law Office

Covered bridge across the Middle Fork of the Holston River east of Marion, built before 1864. The Battle of Marion took place in this area.

Black football team. No information given.

Mule train in Chilhowie pulling boiler for steam engine. Chilhowie mill at left. Lumber from poor valley being shipped to panama canal. J.W. Pendleton at right.

Valley House Hotel dining room. Waiters: Will Smith, Charles J. Richardson, Henry Young, Will Henderson.

Marion Female College.

Main Street Marion. c. 1900. Sam Alexander, George W. Wright.

C.F. Lincoln home at River and Church Streets, Marion. Built aroun 1870 - Razed 1970.

Musser mill, originally Atkins Mill, Atkins, Virginia. 1938.

Musser mill, originally Atkins Mill, Atkins, Virginia. 1938.

Hugh Currin (for which Currin Valley was named.) Born 1813 in N.C. Married in 1847 to Ruth Jean Deatherago of N.C. Died in 1877.