Places

Tunnel Hill School near Natural Tunnel, VA

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Submitted by Debbie Hunt

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Samuel Pendleton TAYLOR Home

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Samuel Pendleton TAYLOR’s home in Duffield, Virginia.  A traveling artist as repayment for their generosity of bed and board painted beautiful Amish-type murals on the front of the house. Submitted by Stephen Rhodes

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TAYLOR RHODES Home place

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Originally built by E. F. TAYLOR.  Emmit RHODES purchased the farm and home place in the 1920s.  He was the brother-in-law to Lillie, E. F.’s daughter.  Emmit and his brother, Jim, expanded the home.  Lillie, who had been born in this house, also died there. Submitted by Stephen Rhodes

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Trestle at Speers Ferry

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Click on image to see larger version Submitted by Stephen Rhodes

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Haywood GRAY’s Store

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Haywood GRAY’s Store, operated in Speers Ferry. Unknown Children. Please see Karen’s comment below, she has identified the children in this photo. Thank you Karen! Submitted by Stephen Rhodes

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Speers Ferry, Virginia

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Farm scene, Speers Ferry, Virginia Submitted by Stephen Rhodes

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Samuel Nathaniel “Allen Cemetery”

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  This Allen Family cemetery was started by Samuel Nathaniel Allen’s family. Samuel was the son of John Allen and Esther Jane Neal. The land it is on is still occupied by descendents of him. And I personally want to thank Bobby Allen Cox for taking such wonderful care of the family grave yard. Especially [...]

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BLEDSOES in Idaho, 1910

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  Tamarack Idaho 1910 Cook House at Sawmill names, left to right 1. unknown 2. unknown 3. unknown 4. Hayes Bledsoe 5. unknown 6. Ann Bledsoe 7. Martha Florence Bledsoe 8. Ira Bledsoe born 1849 d/o Andrew Bledsoe and Eliza Riley 9. Maxine Bledsoe 10. unknown 11. unknown 12. unknown This bunch ties into our [...]

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Sloantown School, 1918

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On the 19th of January, 2001, Genell wrote; I am sending you the picture of the one room school at Sloantown in Scott county. This is a great picture of many children who lived along the Clinch River that attended school at Sloantown. They had to cross the river in a boat to get to [...]

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Greens Chapel Church, 1940′s

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  Click on the image to see a larger version. The names of the people in the photo have been forgotten, but maybe you can help identify them! Leon GREEN has identified his grandfather, John Floyd GREEN, as the older gentleman in the dark jacket near the top right of the photograph. And John has [...]

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BARNETT Family Home

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This was the home of John Barnett and Elizabeth Johnston, when they went to Rockcastle Co., KY. about 1856. Inside the house one can find the ABC carved in a log so Elizabeth could teach her children. The house is setting at Brush Arbor, Rockcastle Co., KY being turned into a museum. Photo is the [...]

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ROLLER Family Home

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Then…   This is the home built by Calloway P. ROLLER and Mary Ann CARTER. Their son William Hasque ROLLER, told his grandson, Bobbie F. ROLLER, that when they moved to the home he and his sister were small and they rode in the back of a sleigh (so it must have been winter) and [...]

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Carl Edgar TEMPLETON at the BELLAMY Store

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No information, other than what was written on the photo, was known about this person when the photo was posted. See the helpful comments below about Carl and the store. If you have additional information about him or the BELLAMY Store, please use leave a comment to add it to this page. Thanks! Photo was [...]

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Scott County Virginia Cemetery Listing

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388 Feature records that have been selected from GNIS, and identified by GNIS, as being in Scott County Virginia (or close to the county border). I have tried to list each cemetery, giving it’s location close to some type of landmark that is shown on the Topozone map. Some of the cemteries listed are not [...]

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