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Title Applying commercial fertilizer to Road Shoulders, Blue Ridge Parkway
Date March 24, 1958
Description Photograph showing a large maintenance truck with workers in the back, applying commercial fertilizer to the Blue Ridge Parkway road shoulders using large sprayers.
Location Location Name: Gillespie Gap
Parkway Milepost: 330.9
Latitude: 35.8526233
Longitude: -82.0509476
Creator Individual William N. Burgen
Tags Landscape development
Maintenance
People
Photographs
Roads
Workers
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway