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• 1.   Rock Embankment
  1930s
• 2.   Before seeding and planting
  1930s
• 3.   Bank Sloping
  1930s
• 4.   Before grading. Deep gullies in erosive soil. Need flattening and rounding. Contour ditches required above.
  July 25, 1935
• 5.   Before grading. Detail showing depth of gullies in erosive soil. Rock decomposed into sand.
  July 25, 1935
• 6.   Coarse Stone Road in Section 2A
  June 23, 1936
• 7.   Handlaid rock embankment
  August 14, 1936
• 8.   Hand-laid rock embankment detail
  August 14, 1936
• 9.   Hand-laid rock embankment construction
  August 14, 1936
• 10.   Early Construction
  August 20, 1936
• 11.   Hand-laid rock embankment after cleanup
  October 25, 1936
• 12.   View looking south across Ice Rock toward hand-laid rock embankmen
  November 11, 1936
• 13.   Station 258 Sec 2B Hand-laid rock embankment
  November 19, 1936
• 14.   Pipe headwall, "backwall" and cobble gutter
  December 13, 1936
• 15.   Typical riprap bank protection
  December 13, 1936
• 16.   Sand blown up on cut
  April 1, 1937
• 17.   Hand-laid rock embankment
  April 2, 1937
• 18.   Hand-laid rock embankment
  April 2, 1937
• 19.   Bridge #9
  May 25, 1937
• 20.   Hand Placed Rock embankment
  May 26, 1937
• 21.   Icy Rock Curve
  May 26, 1937
• 22.   Overcast Material
  December 15, 1937
• 23.   Gorge below Parkway From south end of Ice Rock
  January 2, 1939
• 24.   Before flood and P.R.A. regrading
  May 25, 1939
• 25.   Proposed Line Change on Parkway
  March 29, 1945
• 26.   Proposed Line Change on Parkway
  March 29, 1945
• 27.   Illegal timber cutting by Electric Corp
  July 1946
• 28.   After preparatory grading - before planting - looking south
  October 29, 1947
• 29.   After preparatory grading - before planting - looking north
  October 29, 1947
• 30.   Slide after Storm Damage
  February 6, 1957
• 31.   Slides
  February 6, 1957
• 32.   Advertising sign adjacent to Parkway
  1959
• 33.   Advertising signs along the Parkway
  1959
• 34.   Advertising sign adjacent to Parkway
  1959
• 35.   Rock and mud slides from heavy rains
  June 5, 1973
• 36.   Construction
  November 29, 1973
• 37.   Construction
  November 29, 1973
• 38.   Grandfather Mtn. Progress
  October 1975
• 39.   Grandfather Mountain Progress
  October 1975
• 40.   Bank slide
  October 14, 1976
• 41.   Banks before sloping
  

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