This picture was taken from the main road passing through the town of Mt. Solon, a reminder of how small towns once fit seamlessly into their rural surroundings.
"Our surroundings, if noticed, resemble a living history museum—a disjointed but sometimes readable visual narrative composed of the physical remnants of settlements."*
*From the preface to the book Lost Communities of Virginia by Terri Fisher and Kirsten Sparenborg. Mt Solon is one of the "lost communities" included in the book.
Thank you so much for sharing these pictures. I recently did some genealogy on my family tree and several ancestors were from this area. I was looking for pictures to see what the town looked like. They were very helpful and wonderful pictures.
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