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Title Tunnel No. 1, East Portal Regular landscape development treatment will be sufficient Grading and seeding complete
Title Note See neg# 5229 and 5230
Date May 1943
Description Photograph shows the roadway and east entrance to the first of the Twin Tunnels, located near station 446 and mile post 344.5 in section 2M of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Taken in May 1943.
Location Location Name: Twin Tunnel #1
Parkway Milepost: 344.4
Latitude: 35.763452
Longitude: -82.169127
Creator Individual Unknown
Tags Photographs
Rock cuts
Tunnels
Twin Tunnels (N.C.)
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway