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• 1.   View of road and gutter
  1930s
• 2.   Before grading. Washout ditch filled; needs transition, rounding, and drainage structure.
  July 25, 1935
• 3.   Rock filled tiled drain left of center line
  November 26, 1935
• 4.   Box culvert, 8' x 6', 15° skew
  November 26, 1935
• 5.   Box culvert 8' x 6', 15° skew
  November 26, 1935
• 6.   Bluff Park Culvert Grassy Gap Road
  January 5, 1936
• 7.   General ground conditions, showing cut-over ground and erosion, also pine coming back.
  April 16, 1936
• 8.   Under Drain
  July 23, 1936
• 9.   Pipeline
  August 17, 1936
• 10.   Stone Cement Gutter Construction
  October 5, 1936
• 11.   Stone Cement Gutter
  October 5, 1936
• 12.   Stone Cement Gutter
  October 5, 1936
• 13.   Rubble gutter treatment at intersection of secondary road
  October 13, 1936
• 14.   Detail of rubble gutter and tile underdrain emerging
  October 13, 1936
• 15.   Rubble gutter completed
  October 13, 1936
• 16.   Gutter termination at pipe headwall
  October 13, 1936
• 17.   Gutter under construction
  October 13, 1936
• 18.   General view of road and gutter
  October 13, 1936
• 19.   Detail of rubble gutter - completed
  October 13, 1936
• 20.   View of culvert
  October 13, 1936
• 21.   Simple arch culvert on west side of parkway
  October 13, 1936
• 22.   Work on Culvert
  October 28, 1936
• 23.   Drop Inlet Station 29
  October 28, 1936
• 24.   Drop Inlet and Cement Stone Masonry Apron
  November 17, 1936
• 25.   Winding Road
  February 2, 1937
• 26.   Drain Wall
  February 2, 1937
• 27.   Men cleaning gutter
  February 2, 1937
• 28.   Inlet culvert headwalll
  April 1, 1937
• 29.   Culvert headwall
  April 1, 1937
• 30.   Culvert Headwall
  April 2, 1937
• 31.   View of road
  April 10, 1937
• 32.   Bridge #5 42' span cost $17,520
  May 18, 1937
• 33.   Bridge #9
  May 25, 1937
• 34.   Special drainage structure
  June 22, 1937
• 35.   Special drainage structure
  June 22, 1937
• 36.   Culvert on side of slope above hollow
  July 14, 1937
• 37.   Stone steps joining gutter
  July 28, 1937
• 38.   Head wall and Stone Cement Channel
  July 28, 1937
• 39.   Cement Stone Gutter Along Rock Bank
  July 28, 1937
• 40.   Cement Stone Gutter
  July 28, 1937
• 41.   Headwall to be changed to Drop Inlet
  August 1937
• 42.   Headwall placed too near center line.
  August 1937
• 43.   Drop inlet
  August 20, 1937
• 44.   Construction of Gutter at Inlet Towards Station 28
  September 4, 1937
• 45.   Gutter Work along Rock Face
  September 4, 1937
• 46.   Stone and iron culvert
  September 4, 1937
• 47.   Culvert Cement Stone Gutter at Station 122-30
  September 4, 1937
• 48.   Construction of Gutter at Station 108-60
  September 4, 1937
• 49.   Cement stone gutter
  October 10, 1937
• 50.   View of road
  October 11, 1937
• 51.   Paving Gutters
  October 11, 1937
• 52.   Stone Gutter
  October 11, 1937
• 53.   Gutter Construction
  October 11, 1937
• 54.   Parkway--good example flat slopes and gutter
  October 14, 1937
• 55.   Drop inlet set back of gutter
  October 14, 1937
• 56.   Tunnel entrance and culvert headwall
  October 15, 1937
• 57.   Tunnel #2
  October 15, 1937
• 58.   Bridge - Grassy Gap Road
  March 12, 1938
• 59.   Cut, before grading
  November 11, 1938
• 60.   Type 3 Drop Inlet
  January 28, 1939
• 61.   Type 3 Drop Inlet
  January 28, 1939
• 62.   View of road
  September 6, 1939
• 63.   Example of proper junction D-1 and bituminous gutter
  September 11, 1939
• 64.   Example of proper junction D-1 and bituminous gutter
  September 11, 1939
• 65.   Before flood and P.R.A. regrading
  September 25, 1939
• 66.   Curb and culvert detail on island for gasoline station
  October 26, 1939
• 67.   Pump house site and dam
  October 26, 1939
• 68.   View looking south on parkway
  1940
• 69.   12' x 12' box culvert
  October 1, 1940
• 70.   Seeding and staked mulch (in Bluff Park)
  1941
• 71.   Cut to be daylighted prior to seeding of grass bay.
  January 1947
• 72.   Deteriorated Grate
  May 19, 1952
• 73.   Drainage Construction
  May 29, 1956
• 74.   Drainage Construction
  May 31, 1956
• 75.   Drainage Construction
  June 5, 1956
• 76.   Box Culvert
  July 26, 1956
• 77.   Box Culvert
  July 27, 1956
• 78.   Poor drainage
  June 5, 1973
• 79.   Poor drainage
  June 5, 1973
• 80.   Construction
  November 29, 1973
• 81.   New Drain Field Site in Front of Male Servant's Quarter
  June 1975
• 82.   Drain line for Cone sewage system will go from carriage barn (left), down the road to the end of the rail fence (background)
  June 1975
• 83.   View of area in which septic tank drainfield will be constructed
  June 1975
• 84.   Drainfield for Moses Cone sewage system. View is toward Manor House which is in the background of the photo.
  June 1975
• 85.   Drain line for Cone sewage system will go downhill from this point to the drain field
  June 1975

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