Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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Title | Looking toward upper picnic area and Rocky Knob |
Title Note | Taken from point one-half way up hill toward proposed lodge site |
Date | August 1936 |
Description | Image shows the view looking north toward the upper picnic area and Rocky Knob. The image was taken from a point halfway uphill toward a proposed lodge site. There is a dirt road curving up the hillside across from the camera. There is a tree with overhanging branches in the foreground. Image taken by Albert S. Burns in August of 1936. Image taken near milepost 168.5 of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Rocky Knob Park, in Floyd County, Va. |
Location |
Location Name: Milepost 168 Parkway Milepost: 168.0
Latitude: 36.822371
Longitude: -80.342472 |
Creator Individual | Albert S. Burns |
Tags |
Dead trees
Floyd County (Va.) Graded road Photographs Picnic grounds Proposed sites Rocky Knob (Va.) Trees |
Credit | Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway |