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Title Damage to area adjoining crusher site
Title Note And truck parked outside site
Date August 13, 1936
Description Image shows damage that was done to an area adjoining a crusher site. It also shows the back of a truck parked outside the crusher site. The area appears to be a flat, open dirt field, with a small mound of earth to the right of the photograph. Trees appear in the background and on the far right and left. Image taken by R.F.E. on August 13, 1936. Image taken near milepost 168.5 and station 190+00 in section 1S of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Location Location Name: Milepost 168
Parkway Milepost: 168.0
Latitude: 36.822371
Longitude: -80.342472
Creator Individual R.F.E.
Tags Floyd County (Va.)
Grading (Earthwork)
Landscape
Landscape development
Patrick County (Va.)
Photographs
Road construction
Road damage
Trucks
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway