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Title Hand-laid rock embankment
Date November 11, 1936
Description Close-up photograph of the structure and supports of a hand-laid rock embankment below the roadway near station 256 and mile post 234.5 in section 2B of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Location Location Name: Milepost 234
Parkway Milepost: 234.0
Latitude: 36.441355
Longitude: -81.081688
Creator Individual G.W.W.
Tags Alleghany County (N.C.)
Mahogany Rock (N.C.)
Photographs
Rock embankments
Rocks
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway