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Title Clarkson Gives Claim of Resort (Page 2 of 2)
Title Note Transcript of an article in the News & Observer
Date July 28, 1938
Description Continued from page 1 of 2

This article contains excerpts of one of Heriot Clarkson's letters in which he compares the State Highway Commission's purchase of land for the parkway right-of-way to Hitler, Mussolini and Imperial Japan's invasions of neighboring countries in World War II.
Location Location Name: Little Switzerland
Parkway Milepost: 330.8
Latitude: 35.849672
Longitude: -82.091147
Creator Organization News and Observer
Tags Blue Ridge Parkway--Right-of-way
Clarkson, Heriot
Lawsuits
Little Switzerland (N.C.)
Credit Francis O. Clarkson Papers, #3275, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.