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• 1.   $25,000 is Paid for Road Rights
  May 26, 1939
• 2.   Grandfather Mountain Sought as Public Area
  May 17, 1944
• 3.   Mountain Bridge to be Dedicated
  September 2, 1952
• 4.   Promoter Helps Self, N.C.
  August 5, 1956
• 5.   New Visitor Center Built Atop Grandfather Mountain
  October 15, 1961
• 6.   Highlands Attractions Assn. Backs Morton
  March 28, 1962
• 7.   Parkway Proposal To Curb Tourism?
  March 29, 1962
• 8.   Mountain Or Molehill, Let's Move
  April 14, 1962
• 9.   Parkway Route Left To SHC
  June 29, 1962
• 10.   Contract Okayed for Burke Work
  July 6, 1961
• 11.   Parkway
  March 7, 1962
• 12.   Morton Claims Park Service Trying to 'Steal' Mountain
  March 8, 1962
• 13.   Tar Heel Notebook
  March 18, 1962
• 14.   State Backs Morton In Parkway Row
  April 18, 1962
• 15.   Road Engineers Disagree with Hugh Morton
  May 17, 1962
• 16.   Two Sides
  May 18, 1962
• 17.   If You Want To See Your Boy In One Piece, You'll Let Us Through!
  June 2, 1962
• 18.   Grandfather Confrontation
  June 2, 1962
• 19.   Wirth Holds Out The Prospect Of Uncompleted Parkway Link (Page 1 of 2)
  June 4, 1962
• 20.   Wirth Holds Out The Prospect Of Uncompleted Parkway Link (Page 2 of 2)
  June 4, 1962
• 21.   Mile-High Bridge Is 10 Years Old
  September 2, 1962
• 22.   Fireworks Boom A Salute To Old, Old, Grandfather
  August 25, 1963
• 23.   U.S. Bureau Spurns Parkway Compromise (page 2 of 2)
  September 5, 1963
• 24.   U.S. Bureau Spurns Parkway Compromise (page 1 of 2)
  September 5, 1963
• 25.   Missing Link and a Udall Turn
  September 8, 1963
• 26.   After 11 Years, Morton Is Still King Of Grandfather Mountain (Page 2 of 2)
  October 27, 1963
• 27.   After 11 Years, Morton Is Still King Of Grandfather Mountain (Page 1 of 2)
  October 27, 1963
• 28.   Early End Seen to Controversy
  October 27, 1963
• 29.   Morton Bows Out of Parkway Row
  April 11, 1964
• 30.   Compromise Route For Parkway Backed
  December 23, 1964
• 31.   Mortons Give Property for Highway Route
  January 28, 1965
• 32.   State Is Holding Title To Middle Right-Of-Way Across Grandfather Mtn.
  January 28, 1965
• 33.   Roads Over Grandfather
  October 24, 1965
• 34.   Parkway Battle Is 27 Years Old (Page 2 of 2)
  April 28, 1966
• 35.   Parkway Battle Is 27 Years Old (Page 1 of 2)
  April 28, 1966
• 36.   National Location A National Trust
  April 30, 1966
• 37.   Moore Views "Unhampered" Parkway (Part 2 of 2)
  May 5, 1966
• 38.   Moore Views "Unhampered" Parkway (Part 1 of 2)
  May 5, 1966
• 39.   Grandfather Route For Parkway Is Set (Page 2 of 2)
  May 21, 1966
• 40.   Park Service OK's 'Middle Route' on Morton's Mountain (page 2 of 2)
  May 21, 1966
• 41.   Park Service OK's 'Middle Route' on Morton's Mountain (page 1 of 2)
  May 21, 1966
• 42.   Grandfather Route For Parkway Is Set (Page 1 of 2)
  May 21, 1966
• 43.   Grandfather Mountain Land Donated For Parkway Link (Page 1 of 2)
  June 19, 1969
• 44.   Grandfather Mountain Land Donated For Parkway Link (Page 2 of 2)
  June 19, 1969
• 45.   Mountain Property Donated to Parkway
  June 19, 1969
• 46.   Bridge to Finish N.C. Parkway
  August 12, 1978

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