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Title Bridge Construction
Date February 4, 1937
Description Photograph shows beginning stages of construction at both ends of a stone bridge in section 2A of the Blue Ridge Parkway, with automobiles and construction equipment in the background and a horse in the immediate foreground. Notes on photograph say "Ahead form 432-42, 30 ft right. South along bridge #7 site."
Location Location Name: Milepost 225
Parkway Milepost: 225.0
Latitude: 36.485117
Longitude: -80.97784
Creator Individual W.D. Stanton
Tags Abutments
Alleghany County (N.C.)
Automobiles
Bridge construction
Bridges
Construction
Photographs
Stone carving
Stonemasonry
Credit Courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives