Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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About this Item
Title | First Grading Contract |
Title Note | (Photocard calls it "gradeing") |
Date | September 1935 |
Description | Photograph shows an area of land being cleared by heavy machinery, visible in the background, near milepost 218 in section 2A (Parkway and NC 18) of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Taken by Sam P. Weems in September 1935. |
Commentary | Purpose listed as "history" on card. |
Location |
Location Name: Milepost 218 Parkway Milepost: 218.0
Latitude: 36.550074
Longitude: -80.915148 |
Creator Individual | Sam P. Weems |
Creator Organization | National Park Service—Blue Ridge Parkway |
Tags |
Alleghany County (N.C.)
Construction equipment Cumberland Knob (N.C.) Grading (Earthwork) Land construction Landscape Landscape development Machinery Photographs |
Credit | Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway |