Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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| Title | Slope during L.D. Grading |
| Title Note | Showing grading treatment of rock outcrops |
| Date | December 15, 1939 |
| Description | Image shows a slope during landscape development grading, showing the grading treatment of rock outcrops during the construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway. A person is standing on the cleared dirt road to the left of the image, next to the slope. Image taken by Malcolm A. Bird on December 15, 1939. Image taken at milepost 170 and station 266+00 L/back, in section 1S of the Blue Ridge Parkway. |
| Location |
Location Name: Milepost 170 Parkway Milepost: 170.0
Latitude: 36.804553
Longitude: -80.362041 |
| Creator Individual | Malcolm A. Bird |
| Tags |
Floyd County (Va.)
L.D. grading People Photographs Slope clearing Slopes (road cuts) |
| Credit | Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway |
