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Title Farm Pond in Rocky Knob District
Date October 1964
Description Image shows a pond on a farm in the Rocky Knob District of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The pond is in a pasture lines with fence posts, with two trees in the foreground and more trees beyond in the pond in the background, continuing into mountains in the distance. A house and small buildings sit next to the pond, visible through tree branches in the lower right corner of the frame. Image taken by M. Woodbridge Williams for the Depart of Interior, National Park Service, in October 1964. The negatives were kept at the Howard Thomson Photo Lab in Miami, Fla. Image taken near milepost 168 of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Rocky Knob in Floyd County, Va.
Location Location Name: Milepost 168
Parkway Milepost: 168.0
Latitude: 36.822371
Longitude: -80.342472
Creator Individual M. Woodbridge Williams
Tags Bodies of water
Farm buildings and land
Fences
Floyd County (Va.)
Photographs
Rocky Knob (Va.)
Trees
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway