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Title Visitors at the Mountain Farm Cabin
Date May 5, 1957
Description Image of woman and a man carrying a child walking up the stone steps to a log cabin at the Humpback Rocks Visitor Center and Mountain Farm area near milepost 5.8, section 1B of the Blue Ridge Parkway. In the forefront of the photograph there are multiple flowering trees, presumably Sassafras trees, as well as an assortment of wildflowers blooming in the surrounding land. Image taken from the National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway Headquarters. Photographed by Earl W. Estes, Jr. on May 5, 1957.
Location Location Name: Humpback Rocks Visitor Center and Mountain Farm
Parkway Milepost: 5.8
Latitude: 37.970833
Longitude: -78.898333
Creator Individual Earl W. Estes, Jr.
Tags Farm buildings and land
Flora
Humpback Rocks (Va.)
Nelson County (Va.)
People
Photographs
Residential building
Structures
Trees
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway