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Title Slope before L.D. grading
Title Note Showing grading treatment of rock outcrops
Date December 15, 1938
Description Image shows a slope before the L.D. grading process. A man stands to the right of the road toward the center of the photograph. Image taken by Malcolm A. Bird on Dec. 15, 1938. Image taken near milepost 168 and station 199+80 R/ahead, in section 1S of the Blue Ridge Parkway, in Floyd County, Va.
Location Location Name: Milepost 168
Parkway Milepost: 168.0
Latitude: 36.822371
Longitude: -80.342472
Creator Individual Malcolm A. Bird
Tags Landscape
Landscape development
L.D. grading
Photographs
Road construction
Rocks
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway