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Trip thru Tazewell County
August 2001
Tip Top
The only clue you are passing through Tip Top is the street sign (above left) that tells you that you're on Tip Top Rd.
This is just one of the many houses at the Tip Top Road/Wittens Mill Road crossroad that appears to be very old. Dad says it looks like an old station master's house.
In this picture outside the Tip Top train station in 1923, upon close inspection, the blue house pictured above in 2001 can be seen far down the road on the left. This picture is of Bates and Marcie Maxwell. I've found no documentation yet that they are related to my family, so I think they were just family friends of my grandmother's (see last picture below).
A relatively new church in Tip Top. We think this was built on or near the site of the old train station.
This is the view looking one way down the railroad tracks in 2001.
Old Tip Top
Tip Top School picture from 1923. My grandmother, Isabelle Ellen Brown, taught this class. She is pictured on the far right in the back.
The Iron Lithia Springs resort that was in Tip Top, circa 1909.
Tip Top, the steepest grade along the Norfolk & Western railroad.