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Title Wheel shaft bearing blocks
Title Note Unfinished masonry pier detail
Date June 1940
Description Image of the end of a wheel shaft situated on top of stacked wooden blocks near milepost 176.1, section 1T of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The Mabry Mill pond is visible in the background. Image taken from the National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway Headquarters. Photographed by Kenneth McCarter in June, 1940.
Location Location Name: Mabry Mill (Va.)
Parkway Milepost: 176.1
Latitude: 36.75
Longitude: -80.404722
Creator Individual Kenneth McCarter
Tags Bodies of water
Construction
Floyd County (Va.)
Mabry Mill (Va.)
Photographs
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway