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Title Rockfish Gap Before overpass construction
Date October 1940
Description This photograph shows the Rockfish Gap, Va. area prior to the construction of the Rockfish Gap overpass. An elevated, unpaved road curves around the right side of the image. Trees are visible rising above the road from the area below. This photograph was taken in October of 1940 near station 459 at milepost 0 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Location Location Name: Rockfish Gap
Parkway Milepost: 0.0
Creator Individual W.A.J.
Tags Augusta County (Va.)
Land construction
Photographs
Roads
Rockfish Gap (Va.)
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway