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Title Parkway Extension Plan Eyed At Association Meet
Date December 6, 1961
Description Reports on a Blue Ridge Parkway Association meeting in which Sam Weems detailed possible routes for parkway extension plans into the state of Georgia. Discussion of estimated costs and possible routes of construction were based upon prior survey work. Details legislative efforts by Weems in Washington D.C. Also included is additional business of the Blue Ridge Parkway Association and a map of the proposed Blue Ridge Parkway extension.
Creator Organization Asheville Citizen Times
Tags Beech Gap (N.C.)
Blue Ridge Parkway Association
Blue Ridge Parkway--Finance and funding
Blue Ridge Parkway--Planning
Blue Ridge Trail Association
Construction
Georgia
Kennesaw Mountain (Ga.)
Land use surveys
Legislators
Maps
Mount Hardy (N.C.)
Payne, James
Taylor, Roy A.
Tennessee Bald (N.C.)
United States Bureau of Public Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
United States Department of the Interior
Washington (D.C.)
Weems, Sam P.
Credit North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill