Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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| Title | Traffic signs as existing Dec 1949 |
| Date | December 9, 1949 |
| Description | Image shows a close-up view of a sign that reads "Blue Ridge Parkway," with an arrow pointing right labeled "Roanoke" and an arrow pointing left labeled "Asheville." A paved road appears to the left of the sign, and is intersected by another road to the right. A black car appears in the background of the photograph. Image taken near milepost 165.1 of the Blue Ridge Parkway, at the intersection of the parkway with VA Highway 8, near Tuggle Gap and Floyd, Va. Image taken by Albert S. Burns on December 9, 1949. |
| Location |
Location Name: Milepost 165 Parkway Milepost: 165.0
Latitude: 36.915351
Longitude: -80.208014 |
| Creator Individual | Albert S. Burns |
| Tags |
Automobiles
Floyd County (Va.) Intersections (roads) Photographs Signs and signboards Tuggle Gap (Va.) View of road |
| Credit | Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway |
