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Title Bluffs Dist. US 21, South
Title Note Doughton Park Sign
Date August 1974
Description Photograph shows a road near milepost 229.9 in section 2C of the Blue Ridge Parkway with a sign reading "9 miles to Doughton Park." Taken by Robert G. Bruce in August 1974.
Commentary Robert Doughton was significant in getting parkway production through Allegheny County.
Location Location Name: Milepost 229
Parkway Milepost: 229.0
Latitude: 36.45404
Longitude: -81.020626
Creator Individual Robert G. Bruce
Tags Alleghany County (N.C.)
Doughton Park (N.C.)
Doughton, Robert Lee
Photographs
Roads
Signs and signboards
View of road
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway