Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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Title | View of Tuggles Gap crossing of parkway with Virginia Route No. 8 |
Title Note | Rocky Knob in distance |
Date | July 1936 |
Description | Image shows a flat, open area of dirt and two roads in the early stages of construction that intersect with one another. A black car is parked facing the camera in the left side of the photograph. A tree appears on the right side of the camera, with a simple, possibly barbed-wire fence running in front of it. On the opposite side of the road there is another fence, and a densely wooded area that leads up to a mountain in the background. Image taken near Tuggles Gap at milepost 165.3, PA-1 and FL-40, on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Image taken by Albert S. Burns in July of 1936. |
Location |
Location Name: Milepost 165 Parkway Milepost: 165.0
Latitude: 36.915351
Longitude: -80.208014 |
Creator Individual | Albert S. Burns |
Tags |
Graded road
Intersections (roads) Photographs Road construction Rocky Knob (Va.) Tuggle Gap (Va.) View of road |
Credit | Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway |