Bedford County Photo Album Index

Includes Independent City of Bedford

Please use your "back" key to return to index

Click on thumbnail to see larger picture

Bicentennial Parade Float

In front of the Bedford county Court House August 14, 1954.

Contributed by Dori

Big Spring

The headwater of the Otter River via Stoney Creek. It also fed the original Bedford Reservoir.

Photographed about 1905. Contributed by Thomas A. Markham

Bold Branch Baptist Church

Contributed by Dori

The old Burnette house

in Huddleston. It is between railroad tracks and Goose Creek. It is very overgrown as is the adjacent cemetery. Unfortunately, there isn't a way to get there other than walking. It is in the middle of the woods.

Photographed and Contributed by Lisa

Burnette Tombstone

You can just make out the "ette" in Burnette, in this otherwise illegible picture

Photographed and Contributed by Lisa

Burnett Tombstone

Sarah Burnett, wife of James Burnette, Sr.

Photographed and Contributed by Lisa

Burnette Tombstone

James C. (or O.) Burnette

Photographed and Contributed by Lisa

Burnette Tombstone

another James C. (or O.) Burnette

Photographed and Contributed by Lisa

Burnette Tombstone

M.A. Burnette

Photographed and Contributed by Lisa

Burnette Tombstone

Emma E. Burnette

Photographed and Contributed by Lisa

Burnette Tombstone

Stone in middle of Cemetery

Photographed and Contributed by Lisa

Burnette Tombstone

Sina (illegible) Burnette

Photographed and Contributed by Lisa

Burnette Tombstone

Guy H. Burnette

Photographed and Contributed by Lisa

Burnette Tombstone

Matilda Burnette

Photographed and Contributed by Lisa

Burnette Tombstone

Rufus S. Burnette

Photographed and Contributed by Lisa

Canal Lock

This restored lock is at the Blue Ridge Parkway exhibit along Rt. 501 and the Parkway on the Bedford County side of the river. Free admission.

Photographed Oct 2003 and Contributed by Gill Pollard

Clarke Tombstone

W.C. Clarke, CSA veteran, located in little cemetery on Abert Rd, just outside of Lynchburg.

Photographed and Contributed by Gil Allison

D-Day Memorial

The part with a statue of a soldier exiting a landing craft with bullet spray

Photographed Sept. 2001 and Contributed by Gill Pollard

Durham House

The cemetery is on the hill above the house, and this view was taken from the cemetery. The house has been vandalized on the inside. It was owned by Laban Durham, whose daughter Betty married Montezuma Newman.

Photographed and Contributed by Lisa

Mattox Tombstone

Other D. Mattox. I do not know what relationship the Mattox's were to the Burnette's but they are in the same cemetery.

Photographed and Contributed by Lisa

Mattox Tombstone

Harry A. Mattox

Photographed and Contributed by Lisa

Elias Newman Cemetery

General view. It is in the Huddleston area. Turn on school crossing road off of Rte43 (Leesville Road)

Photographed and Contributed by Lisa

Elias Newman Tombstone

Close-up of burial site shown in previous photo

Photographed and Contributed by Lisa

lake at Peaks of Otter

This site is on the Blue Ridge Parkway and there is a hotel overlooking the lake.

Photographed 1998 and Contributed by Gill Pollard

Peaks of Otter

A View from the Top

Photographed and Contributed by Garry Brandt

Poplar Forest

Thomas Jefferson's "Other House" near the village of Forest, which gets its name from the house's.

Photographed and Contributed by Kay Hover

Poplar Forest

View of the back of the house.

Photographed and Contributed by Kay Hoover

black school

c.1915, class photo

Contributed by Dori

Snowden Dam

at the Snowden power plant from the Bedford county side of the James River. This was originally part of the canal system and old stone work can be seen in places.

Photographed Aug 2003 and Contributed by Gill Pollard


Go To

VAGenWeb Photo Album

Bedford County VAGenWeb

Guidelines