Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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| Title | Typical country road through North Carolina section of parkway. This is a usual road in good weather. |
| Date | October 20, 1936 |
| Description | Addition card text: "There are in the area unusual roads in bad weather." An example of a road prior to the building of the Blue Ridge Parkway. This shows a road in good weather, dry and rutted with trees crowding over the path. A figure is walking on the road. There is no sign of bad weather and it is unknown how it would behave under bad weather conditions. Taken by A.S. Burns on October 20, 1936, in Section 2E, Milepost 261.3-276.4. |
| Commentary | The Blue Ridge Parkway was heralded as a new road that could help to replace old rural roads, which was the whole point of the Good Roads movement. The state of the roads prior to the Blue Ridge Parkway shows the necessity of the Blue Ridge Parkway, and the complications caused by it being a private access. |
| Location |
Location Name: Section 2E Parkway Milepost: None
Latitude: 36.275389
Longitude: -81.427278 |
| Creator Individual | A.S. Burns |
| Creator Organization | National Park Service—Blue Ridge Parkway |
| Tags |
Ashe County (N.C.)
E.B. Jeffress Park (N.C.) Photographs Roads Watauga County (N.C.) Wilkes County (N.C.) |
| Credit | Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway |
