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Title Lightning struck sign
Date 1940
Description Photograph of a sign damaged by a lightning strike by the roadside 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 Automobiles
Bluff Park (N.C.)
Doughton Park (N.C.)
Photographs
Signs and signboards
Storm damage
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway