Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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Title | Hillside |
Date | 1930s |
Description | Photograph shows hillside topped by fence in section 2A of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Taken to show successful soil stabilization of gully - six weeks after work was completed. |
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 |
Fences
Gullies Landscape Landscape development Landscape restoration Photographs |
Credit | Courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives |