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Title Rock Cutting
Date December 5, 1936
Description Photograph shows a rough road cut into a rocky hillside with chopped wood stacked against the slope to the left; crushed rock stockpile, rock crusher, and multiple automobiles are in the distance; section 2C of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Location Location Name: Section 2C
Parkway Milepost: None
Latitude: 36.416769
Longitude: -81.193564
Creator Individual W.D. Stanton
Tags Alleghany County (N.C.)
Automobiles
Construction
Construction equipment
Machinery
Photographs
Road construction
Roads
Rock cuts
Rock embankments
Rocks
View of road
Credit Courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives