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Title Overpass at Meadow Fork
Title Note Two photos
Date March 4, 1936
Description Top photograph of a man in the road at station 257, milepost 247.2, and section 2C on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Photograph labeled "Party: McNary, Hogard, Abbuehl, Gutterson. Camera 100 feet right of parkway center line at figure. Right angle crossing angle permanent past and until crossing." Bottom photograph of car driving on a road near overpass at Meadow Fork at milepost 248, section 2C of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Photograph labeled "Party: McNary, Abbuehl, Gutterson. Picture from 250 feet right of parkway center line at figures. State road relocation very near present center line at figures. Crossing approximately at right angles." Images taken from the National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway Headquarters on March 4, 1936.
Location Location Name: Milepost 247
Parkway Milepost: 247.0
Latitude: 36.395389
Longitude: -81.227466
Tags Alleghany County (N.C.)
Automobiles
Construction
Landscape
Meadow Fork Valley (N.C.)
Overpasses
People
Photographs
Road construction
Road relocation
Roads
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway