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Title Tunnel Construction
Date August 14, 1936
Description Photograph shows workers and a piece of machinery operating on a narrow ledge cut into a hillside in section 2M of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Commentary This is the approach to a tunnel being constructed.
Location Location Name: Section 2M
Parkway Milepost: None
Latitude: 35.788139
Longitude: -82.167372
Creator Individual W.D. Stanton
Tags Construction
Construction equipment
Machinery
Photographs
Roads
Workers
Credit Courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives