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The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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Title View of road
Date 1930s
Description Photograph shows road cut into shallow hillside in section 2A of the Blue Ridge Parkway, with physical damage on the far left.
Commentary Construction of this road began 9/11/1935 and ended 9/21/1939.
Location Location Name: Section 2A
Parkway Milepost: None
Latitude: 36.496308
Longitude: -80.955864
Creator Individual Unknown
Tags Photographs
Roads
Slopes (dressed)
View of road
Credit Courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives