Documenting the American South

• Home
• Explore
  • Search
  • By Dates
  • By Location
  • By Subject
  • GeoBrowse
  • Interactive Maps
• Overlooks
  • Asheville: What's the Parkway Have to Do With It?
  • Behind the Scenes of the 'Scenic'
  • The Blue Ridge Parkway Experience
  • 'For the Benefit of the Public'
  • Grandfather Mountain and the Parkway's "Missing Link"
  • Logging, Tourism, and the Blue Ridge Parkway in Linville, North Carolina
  • Parkway Development and the Eastern Band of Cherokees
  • Photographer Spotlight: Abbie Rowe
  • Routing the Parkway, 1934
  • 'We Drivers'
  • The View from Little Switzerland
• Education
  • K-12
  • Higher Ed
  • Introduction to Digital Humanities
• About
  • About the Parkway
  • About the Project

• Search
>
• Results

Search Results:

• 1.   Taken from center of overpass
  1930s
• 2.   Middle Fork Bridge Under Construction
  1930s
• 3.   Middle Fork Bridge Under Construction
  1930s
• 4.   Middle Fork Bridge Under Construction
  1930s
• 5.   Middle Fork Bridge Under Construction
  1930s
• 6.   Grade Separation Structure Rte NC 18 and Parkway
  1930s
• 7.   layout plan grade separation
  1930s
• 8.   Access road on left of Parkway
  1930s
• 9.   Access Road on Left of Parkway
  1930s
• 10.   Gilam Gap
  December 20, 1934
• 11.   Gilam Gap
  December 20, 1934
• 12.   Gilam Gap Overlook
  December 20, 1934
• 13.   Gillam Gap
  May 28, 1935
• 14.   Dry Masonry Fireplace
  June 19, 1935
• 15.   Big Fill to Right of Picture
  June 19, 1935
• 16.   Watkins Dome from air
  June 19, 1935
• 17.   Overpass location at Benge (back)
  June 19, 1935
• 18.   Dry Masonry Fireplace
  June 19, 1935
• 19.   Mountain Laurel
  June 20, 1935
• 20.   Flame Azalea
  June 21, 1935
• 21.   Detail Map
  1936
• 22.   Early Construction
  August 2, 1936
• 23.   Early Construction
  August 2, 1936
• 24.   Jeff Anderson and some sample stone, 6 foot rule sample 6
  February 21, 1936
• 25.   Rock cut near South Fork New River
  February 21, 1936
• 26.   Fill and box culvert
  May 7, 1936
• 27.   Cut Slopes
  May 7, 1936
• 28.   Fill and Box Culvert
  May 7, 1936
• 29.   Grade crossing, Daniels Gap before revision
  May 8, 1936
• 30.   Stone Steps W.M.L. Miller's house, possible quarry
  May 8, 1936
• 31.   Road relocation (pines to be welled)
  May 8, 1936
• 32.   County road relocation and crossing
  June 3, 1936
• 33.   Tree Wall
  June 3, 1936
• 34.   Early Construction
  June 27, 1936
• 35.   Proposed Crossing of NC 18 (3)
  June 28, 1936
• 36.   Proposed Parkway Crossing of NC Route 18 (1)
  June 28, 1936
• 37.   View of Proposed Crossing of NC 18 (2)
  June 28, 1936
• 38.   Proposed Site for Border of Section C and Section D
  June 28, 1936
• 39.   Early Construction
  July 31, 1936
• 40.   Early Construction
  August 1936
• 41.   County Road, vicinity of sec. 2D, looking south over ridges which carry parkway
  August 1936
• 42.   Hand-laid rock embankment
  August 14, 1936
• 43.   Hand-laid rock embankment detail
  August 14, 1936
• 44.   Hand-laid rock embankment construction
  August 14, 1936
• 45.   Handlaid rock embankment
  August 14, 1936
• 46.   Early Construction
  August 20, 1936
• 47.   View of log cabin in vicinity of parkway
  September 10, 1936
• 48.   Cabin within 100 foot right-of-way of the Parkway.
  September 10, 1936
• 49.   View from right bank of road looking north showing a pine wooded area through which the parkway travels.
  September 11, 1936
• 50.   Property of Robert L. Doughton Opposite 2D
  September 11, 1936
• 51.   Right headwall culvert, Type 3
  September 21, 1936
• 52.   Grading, old N.C. #16 crossing
  October 20, 1936
• 53.   View of typical mountain cabin and surrounding area along road from Jefferson to Glendale Spring, NC (NC route 16)
  October 20, 1936
• 54.   View looking south along parkway, showing need of guard rail
  October 20, 1936
• 55.   Typical country road through North Carolina section of parkway. This is a usual road in good weather.
  October 20, 1936
• 56.   Hand-laid rock embankment after cleanup
  October 25, 1936
• 57.   Retaining Wall Construction
  November 6, 1936
• 58.   View looking south along Parkway
  November 11, 1936
• 59.   Early Construction
  February 5, 1937
• 60.   Culvert headwall
  April 1, 1937
• 61.   Inlet culvert headwalll
  April 1, 1937
• 62.   Sheets Gap parking overlook
  April 1, 1937
• 63.   Thoroughfare (left) cut through during winter because of impassibility of proper access road (right)
  April 1, 1937
• 64.   Sand blown up on cut
  April 1, 1937
• 65.   Overpass construction
  May 4, 1937
• 66.   Overpass Site
  May 5, 1937
• 67.   Sheets Gap Parking Overlook
  June 6, 1937
• 68.   Pier #4
  June 22, 1937
• 69.   Pier #1
  June 22, 1937
• 70.   Pier #1
  June 22, 1937
• 71.   Station 15# Pier #4
  June 22, 1937
• 72.   Useless backfill at base of cut slope
  July 6, 1937
• 73.   Tree wells - rhododendrons
  July 6, 1937
• 74.   Viaduct, form work, pier #3
  July 7, 1937
• 75.   Viaduct west abutment
  June 7, 1937
• 76.   Detail, interior face vaneer wing wall Viaduct
  July 7, 1937
• 77.   Viaduct, Pier #4
  July 7, 1937
• 78.   Viaduct, form work pier #3
  July 7, 1937
• 79.   Side view of access road to 2-C-1
  July 28, 1937
• 80.   Early Construction
  July 30, 1937
• 81.   Special headwall
  August 1937
• 82.   Headwall to be changed to Drop Inlet
  August 1937
• 83.   Headwall placed too near center line.
  August 1937
• 84.   Drop inlet
  August 20, 1937
• 85.   Viaduct Pier #4
  September 12, 1937
• 86.   Viaduct pier #4
  September 12, 1937
• 87.   Viaduct Pier #4
  September 12, 1937
• 88.   View of viaduct under construction
  October 4, 1937
• 89.   View of viaduct under construction
  October 4, 1937
• 90.   View of viaduct under construction
  October 4, 1937
• 91.   Viaduct under construction
  October 13, 1937
• 92.   Viaduct
  January 24, 1938
• 93.   South parapet, west abutment
  January 24, 1938
• 94.   Viaduct
  June 1938
• 95.   Viaduct
  June 1938
• 96.   Overpass Structure
  August 28, 1938
• 97.   Southwest wing and Spandrel Wall Masonry, under men to be removed because of stacking
  October 18, 1938
• 98.   North end of former tunnel
  November 5, 1938
• 99.   Land Acquisition Maps Section 2-E
  1939

• Home
• DocSouth
• CDLA
• Contact
• Privacy