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Title Bass Lake
Title Note Negative 8909-728
Date 1950s
Description View of Bass Lake, located in the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park near Blowing Rock, NC and milepost 293, section 2G off of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Image taken from the National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway Headquarters and taken by Abbie Rowe.
Commentary Moses H. Cone was a textile entrepreneur, who built the Flat Top Manor, with his wife Bertha Cone, on the Moses H. Cone estate in the early 1900s. The Moses H. Cone Estate Memorial Park is near Blowing Rock, NC and now houses the Blue Ridge Mountain Craft Center.
Location Location Name: Bass Lake
Parkway Milepost: 294.0
Latitude: 36.1409622
Longitude: -81.6817727
Creator Individual Abbie Rowe
Creator Organization National Park Service—Blue Ridge Parkway
Tags Bass Lake (N.C.)
Blowing Rock (N.C.)
Bodies of water
Moses H. Cone Memorial Park (N.C.)
Photographs
Scenery
Watauga County (N.C.)
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway