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Title Traffic signs as existing on Dec 1949
Title Note Looking north toward intersection from a point on the Parkway
Date December 18, 1949
Description The image shows a close-up view of an intersection of the Blue Ridge Parkway with VA Route 8. A stop sign appears in the bottom left corner of the photograph, and several other signs appear at other points in the intersection. A car is parked by the side of the road on the left side of the image. Image taken by Albert S. Burns on December 18, 1949. Image taken at milepost 165.1 of the Blue Ridge Parkway, at the intersection of the parkway with VA Route 8, near Tuggle Gap in Floyd County, Va.
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
Stop signs
Tuggle Gap (Va.)
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway