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"This view is east with East Main Street on the left and Pecan Street on the right."

"Aerial view of Wolf Creek and the Abingdon Muster Grounds"

"Memorial to Lewis Preston Summers, Lawyer, Historian
Andrew Rowan Summers, Lawyer, Arttist, Musician
Presented to the Historical Society of Washington County by their heirs (1969)"

Photograph of Lou from RU Magazine (Radford University), 1999. She was a graduate of Radford (class of '32)

Photograph from "Porches in Paradise," Jeanne Johnson. RU Magazine: the magazine of Radford University

“Nature, undisturbed and pure, as God would put in that other paradise. (New York critic said I let the birds and trees take over.) With living in Price Hollow, taking an astronomy course I was able to locate the heavenly paradise.”
Notes from…

"In 1912 the Virginia-Creeper Railway was bought by the Norfolk and Western and extended on to West Jefferson in North Carolina. The line has been in operation under Norfolk and Western ownership continuously since that time, and Damascus is the only…

When she died in 2008, Mrs. Hall’s children, Jack Hall, Eleanor Hutton and Marilou Preston, donated her papers and other effects to the library to be used as an archive for those interested in her life and the life of the community she loved and…

Brief historical sketch of Rambo family. According to Mrs. Hall among the earliest settlers in Damascus. Accompanying image shows the Rambo family's log home, site of the earliest Post Office in Damascus.

Image showing Mock's Chapel (Lutheran Church)