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The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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Title View from top of cut looking across corner of parking area toward the east.
Title Note Showing general view and type of country
Date July 1936
Description Image of the land surrounding the Blue Ridge Parkway. The image shows tree covered mountains, as well as pasture land. There are buildings and fences visible in the image as well. The image was taken near Station 1147+00 and milepost 159.5 in Section 1R of the Blue Ridge Parkway, in July of 1936.
Location Location Name: Milepost 159
Parkway Milepost: 159.0
Latitude: 36.900168
Longitude: -80.254968
Creator Individual A.S. Burns
Tags Blue Ridge Mountains
Farm buildings and land
Floyd County (Va.)
Landscape
Photographs
Trees
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway