Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
About this Image
| Title | Cut Ditch and Bank |
| Date | October 28, 1936 |
| Description | Photograph shows an unpaved road cut into a hill with cleared slopes in section 2A of the Blue Ridge Parkway. |
| Commentary | Another view of the progress of road construction one year after the project began. The Civilian Conservation Corp worked tirelessly to complete the parkway as soon as possible in order to get tourists to the area sooner. The sooner the tourists arrived, the sooner the economy of the cities in the areas along the Blue Ridge Parkway would start to recover.. The Civilian Conservation Corp employed almost 3 million young men between the ages of 18-24 in jobs of conserving and developing natural resources and was started by Franklin Roosevelt as one of his New Deal Programs. |
| Location |
Location Name: Section 2A Parkway Milepost: None |
| Creator Individual | W.D. Stanton |
| Tags |
Grading (Earthwork)
Landscape Photographs Road conditions Road construction Roads Scenery Slopes (dressed) View of road |
| Credit | Courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives |
