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• 1.   Sandwich Shop
  20th Century
• 2.   Sandwich Shop, Cumberland Knob
  20th Century
• 3.   Low Gap, NC
  20th Century
• 4.   Layout plan Picnic Shelter
  1930s
• 5.   Stream
  1930s
• 6.   Cumberland Knob Park Entrance
  1930s
• 7.   Back of sample wall, showing same stone laid in a more informal treatment, etc
  November 13, 1935
• 8.   Picnic area before clearing
  April 21, 1936
• 9.   Cumberland Knob Picnic Area
  April 28, 1936
• 10.   Log Cribbing and Check Dams for Erosion Control
  May 25, 1936
• 11.   Log cribbing and check dams for erosion control
  May 26, 1936
• 12.   Log Cribbing and Check Dams for Erosion Control
  May 26, 1936
• 13.   Open grassy area on Knob, looking west
  May 30, 1936
• 14.   Switchback on trail from Cumberland Knob, picnic area to gulley. Creek showing ramps.
  May 30, 1936
• 15.   Clearing below Knob, Looking toward Spur
  May 30, 1936
• 16.   Construction of Crib-Work for Trail
  June 2, 1936
• 17.   Completed Trail, Indian Grave Trail
  June 15, 1936
• 18.   Completed Cribbing "Spur Trail"
  June 15, 1936
• 19.   Cribbing of trail, almost complete "Spur Trail"
  June 15, 1936
• 20.   Completed Shuttle Trail, Looking Ahead
  June 15, 1936
• 21.   Trail Route, Before Construction "Indian Grave Trail"
  June 15, 1936
• 22.   A Step Detail in Indian Grave Trail
  July 14, 1936
• 23.   4th switch and rest bench site
  July 14, 1936
• 24.   Section of Trail Under Construction - Gully Creek
  July 14, 1936
• 25.   Waterfall Cumberland Knob
  August 1936
• 26.   View of small waterfall. Camera at intersection of trail and stream
  August 1936
• 27.   View from Top Looking Direction of Fishers Peak
  August 1936
• 28.   View from Cumberland Knob
  August 1936
• 29.   Small waterfall, Camera placed at intersection of trail and stream
  August 1936
• 30.   Cumberland Knob
  August 1936
• 31.   Fern Covered Rock along Trail
  August 1936
• 32.   View from Highest Point in Cumberland Knob
  August 1936
• 33.   View of Trail Leading to Cumberland Knob from the Parking Area
  August 31, 1936
• 34.   View of small water fall and stream which crosses the trail at the point where the camera is placed
  September 1936
• 35.   View from Highest Point Looking Northeast
  September 8, 1936
• 36.   Looking east toward Pilot Mountain which is shown very faintly in middle center of picture
  September 8, 1936
• 37.   View of alignment looking north near beginning of the section.
  October 13, 1936
• 38.   Picnic Table
  October 21, 1936
• 39.   View of table rock formation in valley to the east of parkway
  October 22, 1936
• 40.   Cumberland Knob Park Picnic Road
  May 7, 1937
• 41.   Fireplace in shelter on top of Cumberland Knob
  October 1937
• 42.   Cumberland Park Pump House
  January 5, 1938
• 43.   Picnic Shelter Blueprints
  April 11, 1938
• 44.   Looking West from One of the Parking Areas South of Cumberland Knob
  April 27, 1938
• 45.   Shelter on Top of Cumberland Knob
  April 27, 1938
• 46.   Water Fountain
  July 1938
• 47.   Comfort Station Cumberland Knob
  1940
• 48.   Holiday, Cumberland Knob
  1940s
• 49.   Drinking Fountain
  1940
• 50.   Trail Shelter
  1940
• 51.   Parking at Cumberland Knob
  1940s
• 52.   Entrance to Park
  1940
• 53.   Watershed
  1940
• 54.   Drive in Picnic Area
  1940
• 55.   Parking at Cumberland Knob
  1940s
• 56.   Construction of Combination Building, comfort station, picnic shelter, and refractory
  1940
• 57.   Comfort Station Picnic Shelter
  July 2, 1940
• 58.   Flood Damage
  August 16, 1940
• 59.   Refreshments Sign
  July 10, 1942
• 60.   Operator Sign, Lunch Room, Comfort Station
  July 10, 1942
• 61.   Operator's Sign Approach from South
  July 10, 1942
• 62.   Operators Signs, Approach from N
  July 10, 1942
• 63.   Operators Signs
  July 10, 1942
• 64.   Operators Signs Approach from N
  July 10, 1942
• 65.   Operators Sign
  July 10, 1942
• 66.   Operator's Sign Approach from S
  July 10, 1942
• 67.   Operator Sign
  July 10, 1942
• 68.   Operator's Sign - Approach from S
  July 10, 1942
• 69.   Operator Sign (Lunch room, comfort station)
  July 10, 1942
• 70.   C.K. Marker Stone Cumberland Knob
  September 12, 1942
• 71.   Concession Bldg. at Cumberland Knob
  1946
• 72.   Picnic Group, Cumberland Knob
  June 1946
• 73.   Cumberland Knob
  June 1946
• 74.   Parkway Near Cumberland Knob
  June 1946
• 75.   Picnic Group, Cumberland Knob
  June 1946
• 76.   Picnicking
  June 1946
• 77.   Radio sub-station #319
  October 1957
• 78.   Incinerator #349
  October 1957
• 79.   Radio sub-station #319
  October 1957
• 80.   Incinerator #349
  October 1957
• 81.   Overlook Shelter, Bldg#89, Built by ERA in 1938
  1960s
• 82.   Cumberland Knob Shelter Bldg #90
  August 22, 1975
• 83.   Cemetery
  March 10, 1976
• 84.   Signs Picnic Area
  1977
• 85.   Campground
  Summer 1977
• 86.   Oral History Interview with Dillard Teer, January 20, 1997
  January 20, 1997

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