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• 1.   Regional Sketch Map
  1935
• 2.   Special Headwall, 10' x 7' R.C. Box
  May 25, 1935
• 3.   Special headwall 10' x 7' R.C. box
  May 25, 1935
• 4.   Back of sample wall, showing same stone laid in a more informal treatment, etc
  November 13, 1935
• 5.   Box culvert 8' x 6', 15° skew
  November 26, 1935
• 6.   Box culvert, 8' x 6', 15° skew
  November 26, 1935
• 7.   Stripped area and top soil storage pile
  November 26, 1935
• 8.   Top soil stripping operations
  November 26, 1935
• 9.   General view of construction rough grading
  November 26, 1935
• 10.   Rock filled tiled drain left of center line
  November 26, 1935
• 11.   General view construction through low area
  November 26, 1935
• 12.   Chimney, clay-mortar stone. Holloway place
  February 13, 1936
• 13.   Holloway Place
  February 14, 1936
• 14.   Chimney, clay-mortar stone, Holloway place.
  February 14, 1936
• 15.   Chimney, dry-laid stone. D. F. Wagoner place.
  February 14, 1936
• 16.   Chimney, clay mortar stone, Holloway place. Chimney details showing stone generally found along parkway, Sec 1P through 2F.
  February 14, 1936
• 17.   Chimney, clay-mortar stone, Holloway place
  February 14, 1936
• 18.   Chimney dry-laid stone. D.F. Wagoner Place
  February 14, 1936
• 19.   Chimney, dry-laid stone. D.F. Wagoner place.
  February 14, 1936
• 20.   Chimney, clay-mortar stone Holloway place
  February 14, 1936
• 21.   Retaining wall, Class B, masonry. See neg# 5951
  February 15, 1936
• 22.   Retaining wall class B masonry See #5951
  February 15, 1936
• 23.   Retaining wall, class B masonry
  February 15, 1936
• 24.   Stone work detail Class B masonry retaining wall See neg# 5951
  February 15, 1936
• 25.   Type #1 headwall, single
  April 16, 1936
• 26.   General ground conditions, showing cut-over ground and erosion, also pine coming back.
  April 16, 1936
• 27.   Arch-cut Stone, Double Box Culvert
  April 16, 1936
• 28.   General Ground Conditions Showing Stream Conditions
  April 16, 1936
• 29.   General ground conditions showing stream conditions
  April 16, 1936
• 30.   Type #1 Headwall, Single
  April 16, 1936
• 31.   Arch + cut stone - double box culvert
  April 16, 1936
• 32.   Type #3 headwall, single
  April 16, 1936
• 33.   General ground conditions, showing erosion
  April 16, 1936
• 34.   Picnic area before clearing operations
  April 21, 1936
• 35.   Picnic area before clearing
  April 21, 1936
• 36.   Cumberland Knob Picnic Area
  April 28, 1936
• 37.   Cumberland Knob Picnic Area
  April 28, 1936
• 38.   Masonry in retaining wall Class B
  April 29, 1936
• 39.   Log Cribbing and Check Dams for Erosion Control
  May 25, 1936
• 40.   Special headwall, Type #1 10' x 7' Box
  May 25, 1936
• 41.   Cribbing check dams with brush back-fill
  May 25, 1936
• 42.   Log Cribbing and Check Dams for Erosion Control
  May 26, 1936
• 43.   Log cribbing and check dams for erosion control
  May 26, 1936
• 44.   Log cribbing and check for erosion control
  May 26, 1936
• 45.   Clearing below Knob, Looking toward Spur
  May 30, 1936
• 46.   Open grassy area on Knob, looking west
  May 30, 1936
• 47.   Switchback on trail from Cumberland Knob, picnic area to gulley. Creek showing ramps.
  May 30, 1936
• 48.   Construction of Crib-Work for Trail
  June 2, 1936
• 49.   Completed Trail, Indian Grave Trail
  June 15, 1936
• 50.   Cribbing and trail, almost complete "Spur Trail"
  June 15, 1936
• 51.   Completed Cribbing "Spur Trail"
  June 15, 1936
• 52.   Cribbing of trail, almost complete "Spur Trail"
  June 15, 1936
• 53.   Completed Shuttle Trail, Looking Ahead
  June 15, 1936
• 54.   Trail Route, Before Construction "Indian Grave Trail"
  June 15, 1936
• 55.   Right Hand Beam
  July 13, 1936
• 56.   4th switch and rest bench site
  July 14, 1936
• 57.   A Step Detail in Indian Grave Trail
  July 14, 1936
• 58.   Section of Trail Under Construction - Gully Creek
  July 14, 1936
• 59.   Bridge #1 left-handed beam
  July 14, 1936
• 60.   Hand-placed rock wall
  August 20, 1936
• 61.   Rough Grading Partially Complete
  August 25, 1936
• 62.   After stream improvement
  August 26, 1936
• 63.   Plant group left of parkway
  August 27, 1936
• 64.   Plant group left of parkway
  August 27, 1936
• 65.   Close-up of plant group left of parkway
  August 27, 1936
• 66.   Rubble gutter treatment at intersection of secondary road
  October 13, 1936
• 67.   Detail of rubble gutter and tile underdrain emerging
  October 13, 1936
• 68.   Gutter termination at pipe headwall
  October 13, 1936
• 69.   General view of road and gutter
  October 13, 1936
• 70.   Gutter under construction
  October 13, 1936
• 71.   Road alignment looking back
  October 13, 1936
• 72.   Detail of rubble gutter - completed
  October 13, 1936
• 73.   Crushed stone base for rubble gutter
  October 13, 1936
• 74.   Rubble gutter completed
  October 13, 1936
• 75.   Hare Mill Pond and road after clean-up
  November 10, 1936
• 76.   Parkway at Hare Mill Pond
  November 10, 1936
• 77.   Hare Mill Pond and secondary road
  November 10, 1936
• 78.   Hand-laid rock embankment
  November 11, 1936
• 79.   Hand-placed rock embankment
  November 11, 1936
• 80.   Hand-placed rock embankment
  November 11, 1936
• 81.   Unmaintained county road parallel to parkway
  November 11, 1936
• 82.   Parkway road and parking area
  November 11, 1936
• 83.   Crew working in cut
  November 11, 1936
• 84.   Ahead on Line
  November 11, 1936
• 85.   Looking back at cut and general damage
  November 11, 1936
• 86.   Looking back at cut and general damage
  November 11, 1936
• 87.   Drop Inlet and Cement Stone Masonry Apron
  November 17, 1936
• 88.   General view showing machinery making fill through low wet area
  November 25, 1936
• 89.   Bridge at site #7, Steel stringers
  March 29, 1937
• 90.   North abutment and stringers
  March 29, 1937
• 91.   Bridge at site #7 Steel construction
  March 29, 1937
• 92.   Bridge at site #7 Steel construction, looking back from south abutment
  March 29, 1937
• 93.   East parapet wall south abutment
  March 29, 1937
• 94.   Bridge at Site #7, Steel Construction
  March 29, 1937
• 95.   Cutting for telephone line on right-of-way line
  March 30, 1937

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