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Title Root Cellar and Gear Loft on original site
Title Note Built by John C. Clark, 1881
Date September 1952
Description This image shows a detail in the construction of a log wall that is part of a root cellar built by John C. Clark in 1881. Wooden pegs were driven into the logs and used to hold wood chinking between the logs. A note with the photograph indicates that no mud was used with the wood chinking. The image was taken at the original site of the root cellar, near milepost 36.4 in Section 1E of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The structure was disassembled and reconstructed near the Humpback Rocks Visitors Center, near milepost 5.8 in Section 1B of the Blue Ridge Parkway. This image was taken by C. S. Grossman in September 1952.
Location Location Name: Milepost 36
Parkway Milepost: 36.0
Latitude: 37.795853
Longitude: -79.212238
Creator Individual C.S. Grossman
Tags Cellars, Root
Farm buildings and land
Interpretive development
Photographs
Rockbridge County (Va.)
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway