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Title Rangers quarters at Davey House
Date November 1976
Description Color photograph shows ranger's quarters with a pale green station wagon parked in front, located near mile post 455.7 and Soco Gap at the junction of sections 2X and 2Y of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Taken by C. E. Westveer in November 1976.
Commentary Soco Gap is the end of Section 2Y and the entry point into Cherokee country. On some other photos of the same house, the house is named "Davie quarters", not "Davey". Building #602.
Location Location Name: Soco Gap
Parkway Milepost: 455.0
Latitude: 35.4953793
Longitude: -83.1562552
Creator Individual C.E. Westveer
Tags Automobiles
Building
Housing
Housing (National Park Service)
Photographs
Soco Gap (N.C.)
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway