Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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Title | Road layout grading looking toward parkwy [parkway] |
Date | May 1947 |
Description | Image shows two men working near a newly graded road. The Blue Ridge Parkway is visible right beyond the construction site. The image was taken in May 1947 at the site of the Peaks of Otter bus terminal, near milepost 86 and Section 1K of the Blue Ridge Parkway. |
Location |
Location Name: Peaks of Otter Bus Station and Camp Store Parkway Milepost: 86.0
Latitude: 37.442989
Longitude: -79.609508 |
Creator Individual | W.D.L. |
Tags |
Bedford County (Va.)
Construction equipment Graded road Peaks of Otter (Va.) People Photographs Road construction Trucks Workers |
Credit | Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway |