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Title Hand Trimming Guard Rails
Date August 1973
Description This photograph shows a section of the parkway curving around a rocky outcropping on the left with a wooden guard rail and downward slope on the right. A car can be seen in the background driving away from the camera. Four workers in hard hats are standing with tools, presumably for the use of trimming guard rails, to the right of the parkway. The photograph shows an area near milepost 7 in the Montebello sub-district, and was taken in August 1973.
Location Location Name: Milepost 7
Parkway Milepost: 7.0
Latitude: 37.961121
Longitude: -78.911628
Creator Individual Robert G. Bruce
Tags Augusta County (Va.)
Automobiles
Guard rails
Photographs
Workers
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway