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Title Icy Rock Cut
Date October 31, 1936
Description Photograph shows a narrow rough road cut into a rocky hillside, with construction equipment to the left and a warning sign for blasting in the area. Section 2C of the Blue Ridge Parkway near Ice Rock.
Location Location Name: Section 2C
Parkway Milepost: None
Latitude: 36.416769
Longitude: -81.193564
Creator Individual W.D. Stanton
Tags Alleghany County (N.C.)
Construction
Construction equipment
Ice Rock (N.C.)
Machinery
Photographs
Road construction
Roads
Rock cuts
Rocks
Signs and signboards
Slope clearing
View of road
Credit Courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives