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• 1.   Storage Compound Bldg #164
  20th Century
• 2.   Low Gap, NC
  20th Century
• 3.   Cliff along roadside
  1930s
• 4.   Stone Masons
  1935
• 5.   Early Construction
  November 1, 1935
• 6.   Cumberland Knob Picnic Area
  April 28, 1936
• 7.   Cribbing check dams with brush back-fill
  May 25, 1936
• 8.   Log cribbing and check for erosion control
  May 26, 1936
• 9.   First Parkway Crossing of NC 18, Near Sparta, NC
  July 22, 1936
• 10.   Early Construction
  July 23, 1936
• 11.   Bench along trail at a point 100 yards from picnic area.
  August 1936
• 12.   Cumberland Knob waterfall
  August 1936
• 13.   Early Construction
  August 22, 1936
• 14.   After stream improvement
  August 26, 1936
• 15.   A view from the hillside opposite of the entrance to Cumberland Knob Park, looking across the Parkway to the park area
  October 1936
• 16.   View looking north along parkway
  October 12, 1936
• 17.   View looking north on parkway
  October 13, 1936
• 18.   Bridge No. 4
  December 2, 1936
• 19.   Building - razed
  January 12, 1937
• 20.   Bridge at Site #7, Steel Construction
  March 29, 1937
• 21.   Cumberland Knob Shelter Bldg #89
  September 1937
• 22.   Sheds (Torn down by BLRI 2/1/39)
  January 18, 1939
• 23.   Drinking Fountain
  1940
• 24.   Equipment office showing oil house
  1940
• 25.   Entrance to Park showing sign and crate structure
  1940
• 26.   Cumberland Knob Guard Wall
  November 18, 1940
• 27.   Parkway motor road blocked with snow, Motorist stalled, Damage to shoulder and slope
  March 1947
• 28.   Fox Hunters Paradise Interpretive Sign
  April 1947
• 29.   Sandwich Shop (now Visitor Center)
  1950s
• 30.   Visitors eating lunch in shelter
  1950s
• 31.   Tractor, Lime, and Fertilizer Spreaders, Bk. of Rt. 21
  June 19, 1959
• 32.   Cumberland Knob Shelter Bldg #90
  August 22, 1975
• 33.   Cumberland Knob Shelter Building #90
  August 22, 1975
• 34.   Scenery
  1977
• 35.   Scenery
  1977

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