Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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Title | View taken from vicinity of proposed parkway near Yellow Mtn. |
Title Note | Looking away from Roanoke toward Blue Ridge |
Date | August 1936 |
Description | Image shows the view from the proposed site for the Blue Ridge Parkway. A tree appears on the right side of the photograph and grass and corn fields are in the center. Woods and mountains appear in the distance. Image taken by Albert S. Burns in August of 1936. Image taken near milepost 120.4, in the vicinity of Roanoke, Va. |
Location |
Location Name: Milepost 120 Parkway Milepost: 120.0
Latitude: 37.223524
Longitude: -79.941141 |
Creator Individual | Albert S. Burns |
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Pastures
Photographs Proposed sites Roanoke County (Va.) Roanoke (Va.) Trees |
Credit | Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway |