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Title Shovel loading
Date July 23, 1936
Description Photograph shows workers and machinery loading cut rock into Euclid wagons, taken in section 2A of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Commentary Northwest 2 yard. Shovel loading Euclid wagons, rock cut south from 591 in Alleghany County.
Location Location Name: Milepost 227
Parkway Milepost: 227.0
Latitude: 36.461685
Longitude: -80.992802
Creator Individual W.D. Stanton
Tags Alleghany County (N.C.)
Construction
Construction equipment
Machinery
Photographs
Road construction
Roads
Rock cuts
Workers
Credit Courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives