Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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| Title | Want Ridge Road from Washington to 'Smokies' |
| Date | October 18, 1933 |
| Description | Newspaper article describes a proposal to the Public Works Administration seeking complete federal funding for the Blue Ridge Parkway. The first draft of this proposal also called for a connecting road from the Shenandoah National Park to Washington, D.C. |
| Creator Organization | Raleigh News and Observer |
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Blue Ridge Parkway--Planning
Byrd, Harry F. Cammerer, Arno B. Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Ickes, Harold L. Jeffress, E.B. (Edwin Bedford) Public Works Administration Radcliffe Committee Washington (D.C.) |
| Credit | North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
