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Title | Cone Park Bass Lake |
Title Note | Negative 8313 |
Date | 1976 |
Description | View of Bass Lake, located in the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park, near Blowing Rock, NC and milepost 293 and off of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The Flat Top Manor House can be seen in background. Image taken from the National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway Headquarters, 1976. |
Commentary | Moses H. Cone was a textile entrepreneur, who built the Flat Top Manor, with his wife Bertha Cone, on the Moses H. Cone estate in the early 1900s. The Moses H. Cone Estate Memorial Park is near Blowing Rock, NC and now houses the Blue Ridge Mountain Craft Center. |
Location |
Location Name: Bass Lake Parkway Milepost: 294.0
Latitude: 36.1409622
Longitude: -81.6817727 |
Tags |
Blowing Rock (N.C.)
Bodies of water Flat Top Manor (Blowing Rock, N.C.) Moses H. Cone Memorial Park (N.C.) Parkway Craft Center (Flat Top Manor) Photographs Watauga County (N.C.) |
Credit | Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway |