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Title Lightning struck sign
Date 1940
Description Photograph of a sign damaged by a lightning strike in Bluff Park (now Doughton Park) near mile post 239 in section 2C of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Taken by Kenneth McCarter in 1940.
Location Location Name: Bluff Park
Parkway Milepost: 239.0
Creator Individual Kenneth McCarter
Tags Bluff Park (N.C.)
Doughton Park (N.C.)
Photographs
Signs and signboards
Storm damage
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway