Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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| Title | Work on Culvert |
| Date | October 28, 1936 |
| Description | Photograph shows workers working in a ditch with drainpipe alongside the road in section 2A of the Blue Ridge Parkway, with buildings and fences visible in the background. |
| Commentary | This picture shows members of the Civilian Conservation Corp hard at work digging a 90-foot culvert alongside the road. Culverts are used to channel water oftentimes underneath a road, as seen here. The workers seen here are part of a much longer program through the CCC which provided jobs in conserving and developing natural resources across the United States. They were started by President Roosevelt and provided almost 3 million jobs to young men between the ages of 18-24 so they could earn money during the Great Depression. |
| Location |
Location Name: Section 2A Parkway Milepost: None
Latitude: 36.496308
Longitude: -80.955864 |
| Creator Individual | W.D. Stanton |
| Tags |
Construction
Drainage Farm buildings and land Land construction Landscape Photographs Residential building Underground pipelines Workers |
| Credit | Courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives |
