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Title Letter from Clyde R. Hoey to Francis O. Clarkson
Date August 30, 1937
Description Replies to Clarkson's letter and wishes the Switzerland Company success in getting the matter with the State Highway Commission resolved.
Commentary Seems to indicate the Governor was disinclined to get involved in the dispute between the Switzerland Company and the State Highway Commission over compensation for land taken in the parkway right-of-way. Box 11.
Location Location Name: Little Switzerland
Parkway Milepost: 330.8
Latitude: 35.849672
Longitude: -82.091147
Creator Individual Clyde R. Hoey
Tags Blue Ridge Parkway--Right-of-way
Clarkson, Francis O.
Letters
Little Switzerland (N.C.)
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Switzerland Company
Credit Francis O. Clarkson Papers, #3275, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.