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Title Before flood and P.R.A. regrading
Date September 25, 1939
Description Photograph shows an eroded embankment before the flood of 1940 and subsequent regrading near mile post 264 in section 2E of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Taken to show cave-in of rotten rock.
Location Location Name: Milepost 264
Parkway Milepost: 264.0
Latitude: 36.280247
Longitude: -81.37475
Creator Individual Malcolm A. Bird
Tags Ashe County (N.C.)
Automobiles
Erosion
Landscape
Photographs
Roads
Wilkes County (N.C.)
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway