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Title Visitors at the Mountain Farm Cabin
Date May 5, 1957
Description Image of three people and two children walking up the path to a log cabin at the Humpback Rocks Visitor Center and Mountain Farm area near milepost 5.8, section 1B of the Blue Ridge Parkway. There are three people standing on the porch in front of the doorway. Also on the porch is a long wooden bench. In the forefront of the photograph there are multiple flowering trees, presumably Sassafras trees, as well as an assortment of wildflowers blooming in the surrounding land. To the right of the cabin, there is another structure. Image taken from the National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway Headquarters. Photographed by Earl W. Estes, Jr. on May 5, 1957.
Location Location Name: Humpback Rocks Visitor Center and Mountain Farm
Parkway Milepost: 5.8
Latitude: 37.970833
Longitude: -78.898333
Creator Individual Earl W. Estes, Jr.
Tags Farm buildings and land
Flora
Humpback Rocks (Va.)
Nelson County (Va.)
People
Photographs
Residential building
Structures
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway