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• 1.   layout plan grade separation
  1930s
• 2.   Overpass location at Benge (back)
  June 19, 1935
• 3.   Big Fill to Right of Picture
  June 19, 1935
• 4.   Watkins Dome from air
  June 19, 1935
• 5.   Jeff Anderson and some sample stone, 6 foot rule sample 6
  February 21, 1936
• 6.   Grade crossing, Daniels Gap before revision
  May 8, 1936
• 7.   Stone Steps W.M.L. Miller's house, possible quarry
  May 8, 1936
• 8.   Hand-laid rock embankment construction
  August 14, 1936
• 9.   Handlaid rock embankment
  August 14, 1936
• 10.   Hand-laid rock embankment detail
  August 14, 1936
• 11.   Hand-laid rock embankment
  August 14, 1936
• 12.   View looking south along parkway, showing need of guard rail
  October 20, 1936
• 13.   Typical country road through North Carolina section of parkway. This is a usual road in good weather.
  October 20, 1936
• 14.   Hand-laid rock embankment after cleanup
  October 25, 1936
• 15.   Sand blown up on cut
  April 1, 1937
• 16.   Early Construction
  July 30, 1937
• 17.   North end of former tunnel
  November 5, 1938
• 18.   Land Acquisition Maps Section 2-E
  1939
• 19.   Shed Former owner Don Bare
  January 20, 1939
• 20.   Before flood and P.R.A. regrading
  September 25, 1939
• 21.   Burnt car found on Sec 2E. Full report by Ranger Coombs
  July 19, 1940
• 22.   Burnt car found on Sec 2E
  July 19, 1940
• 23.   Soil Erosion
  1941
• 24.   Top and inside of wall. Sample section of guard wall.
  July 1, 1941
• 25.   Back of wall. Sample section of guard wall
  July 1, 1941
• 26.   Gully control (after)
  July 26, 1941
• 27.   Gully control (afer)
  July 26, 1941
• 28.   Gully control (after)
  July 26, 1941
• 29.   Gully control (after)
  July 26, 1941
• 30.   Shows active gully and sheet erosion (before)
  November 1941
• 31.   Gully and sheet erosion (work started)
  November 1941
• 32.   Gully and sheet erosion (mulching with pine)
  November 1941
• 33.   Gully control (after) Beng, N.C.
  November 1941
• 34.   Gully and Sheet Erosion
  July 1, 1942
• 35.   "Before picture" shows close-up of severe sheet erosion. "After picture" neg #5443
  August 1944
• 36.   Gully and sheet erosion
  August 1944
• 37.   Gully and sheet erosion.
  August 1944
• 38.   Parkway Land Use Map Section 2-E
  1947
• 39.   Hampton Ashley Trespass Sketch
  

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