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Title Fill Before Grading
Title Note negative 5982, classification no. 625
Date October 6, 1938
Description Workmen standing on a road that is filled, right before grading near milepost 238.3, section 2C, and station 108+00 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Image taken from the National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway Headquarters and taken by "TKP" on October 6, 1938.
Location Location Name: Milepost 238
Parkway Milepost: 238.0
Latitude: 36.422705
Longitude: -81.138681
Creator Individual Ted K. Pease
Tags Alleghany County (N.C.)
Automobiles
Grading (Earthwork)
Photographs
Road construction
Roads
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway