Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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| Title | Detail of the peg which keeps the door closed. |
| Title Note | Stable, corn crib, and cow shed built by John C. Clark, 1881. Moved and restored at Humback Rocks by NPS, 1953. |
| Date | June 1953 |
| Description | Image shows a wooden peg that is used to keep a door from swinging open. A leather strap is fastened to a log near the door, and to one end of the peg with small wooden pegs. A note with the image indicates that this detail of the structure was provided by Will Hall, a native of Montebello, Virginia, who said that the leather strap was how the pegs were kept from getting lost when he was a boy. The National Park Service removed this structure and others from near milepost 36.4 of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The structures were restored and reassembled at the Humpback Rocks Visitor Center and Mountain Farm. This image was taken at the Humpback Rocks Visitor Center, near milepost 5.8 in Section 1B of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Taken by C. S. Grossman in June 1953. |
| Location |
Location Name: Humpback Rocks Visitor Center and Mountain Farm Parkway Milepost: 5.8
Latitude: 37.970833
Longitude: -78.898333 |
| Creator Individual | C.S. Grossman |
| Tags |
Augusta County (Va.)
Doors Farm buildings and land Interpretive development Photographs Wood |
| Credit | Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway |
