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A Pictorial Essay of Ararat and Kibler Valley, Virginia in the Early Part of This Century

By Bobbie Clement © 1991

Issue: April, 1991

Editor's Note... Our thanks to Bobbie Clement for sending us these photographs; they and many others are in the Patrick County commemorative Bicentennial book. It has sold out of the first printing and is now being reprinted. For more information about ordering a copy of it, contact Bobbie Clement, Route 1, Box 101, Ararat, VA 24053.

Mt. Airy & Eastern Train Derailment in the Ararat Section. Courtesy of Harvey & Mamie Collins. Mt. Airy & Eastern Train Derailment in the Ararat Section. Courtesy of Harvey & Mamie Collins.
Grist Mill on Dan River by railroad Track, Kibler Valley area, about 1910. From Doris Anderson. Grist Mill on Dan River by railroad Track, Kibler Valley area, about 1910. From Doris Anderson.
John Beasley. From Virginia Mitchell. John Beasley. From Virginia Mitchell.
Eva Matthews, Sallie Smith, Mood Hill. Photo from Mabel J. Bowman. Eva Matthews, Sallie Smith, Mood Hill. Photo from Mabel J. Bowman.
Cutting Grain In Kibler Valley. From Helen Hooker (Aunt Sarah Lawson's photographs.) Cutting Grain In Kibler Valley. From Helen Hooker (Aunt Sarah Lawson's photographs.)
Foot bridge on Dan River, Kibler Valley. (Museum - Doris Anderson). Foot bridge on Dan River, Kibler Valley. (Museum - Doris Anderson).