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• 1.   Road up Sharp Top
  July 1934
• 2.   Cut Slopes
  May 7, 1936
• 3.   Early Construction
  August 19, 1936
• 4.   Early Construction
  August 24, 1936
• 5.   Narrow Mountain Road
  September 25, 1936
• 6.   Cut, before grading
  November 14, 1936
• 7.   Useless backfill at base of cut slope
  July 6, 1937
• 8.   Drop inlet
  August 20, 1937
• 9.   Cut Road
  September 14, 1937
• 10.   Man and a Horse Team
  October 12, 1937
• 11.   Parkway--good example flat slopes and gutter
  October 14, 1937
• 12.   Partially Worked Gradient
  October 15, 1937
• 13.   Slope on Parkway
  July 16, 1938
• 14.   Cut before grading
  October 4, 1938
• 15.   Cut before grading
  October 21, 1938
• 16.   Cut before grading
  October 21, 1938
• 17.   Cut, before grading
  November 11, 1938
• 18.   Cut before grading, looking back
  November 22, 1938
• 19.   Cut before grading, looking back
  November 22, 1938
• 20.   Cut before grading, looking back
  November 22, 1938
• 21.   Section 2J
  1940s
• 22.   60 foot cut Great quantities of natural ground water have caused much trouble in this cut
  July 8, 1940
• 23.   Parkway slopes
  July 26, 1940
• 24.   Complete Slide from Cut
  August 16, 1940
• 25.   Fill Slope where Slide Continues, Post Construction
  May 6, 1942
• 26.   Road to Sharp Top before construction. Slope flattening
  November 15, 1946

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