Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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Title | Parkway Construction, Wolf Bald Cut |
Date | October 1959 |
Description | Road construction near Wolf Bald. Photo taken by Garrett T. Smathers in October 1959. Wolf Bald is near the border of Jackson, Haywood, and Transylvania Counties. |
Commentary | Although most of Section 2-V was completed during the late 1940s, this picture shows that construction continued much later than that. This part of the Parkway, at milepost 425.3, is under construction in October of 1959. |
Location |
Location Name: Wolf Bald Parkway Milepost: 425.3
Latitude: 35.30399
Longitude: -82.93624 |
Creator Individual | Garrett T. Smathers |
Creator Organization | National Park Service—Blue Ridge Parkway |
Tags |
Construction
Haywood County (N.C.) Jackson County (N.C.) Photographs Transylvania County (N.C.) Wolf Bald (N.C.) |
Credit | Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway |