Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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Title | Groundbreaking Ceremony |
Title Note | Grandfather Mountain Section |
Date | October 22, 1968 |
Description | Left to right: Governor Dan K. Moore, U.S. Senator Sam Ervin, Jr., Horton Bill (art director of the National Park Service), Hugh Morton (owner of Grandfather Mountain), James T. Broyhill (U.S. House of Representatives), Sup Liles (of the Blue Ridge Parkway), and Roland S. Ligon (president of the Blue Ridge Parkway Assosication). Group at groundbreaking ceremony for Blue Ridge Parkway. Image taken from the National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway Headquarters on October 22, 1968. |
Commentary | Also see Hugh Morton Collection of Photographs and Film. |
Location |
Location Name: Grandfather Mountain Parkway Milepost: None
Latitude: 36.111239
Longitude: -81.8114991 |
Tags |
Blue Ridge Parkway Association
Broyhill, James T. Ervin, Sam J. Moore, Dan K. Morton, Hugh Photographs |
Credit | Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway |