Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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| Title | Mulching |
| Date | December 22, 1947 |
| Description | Image shows a slope near the side of the Blue Ridge Parkway that is in the process of being mulched. A portion of the slope has no grass cover, and set near the far edge of this area there are piles of mulching material. A man is standing on one pile, part way up the slope. There is another pile of mulching material at the base of the slope, near the side of the road, and there is man standing on the bed of a truck that is parked near it. The image was taken near milepost 88.5 in Section 1K of the Blue Ridge Parkway on December 22, 1947. |
| Location |
Location Name: Milepost 88 Parkway Milepost: 88.0
Latitude: 37.46179
Longitude: -79.633879 |
| Creator Individual | W.D.L. |
| Tags |
Botetourt County (Va.)
Erosion Landscape development Photographs Trucks View of road Workers |
| Credit | Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway |
