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Title Resort Asks State to Pay $50,000 for Right-of-Way
Title Note Transcript of an article in the News & Observer
Date July 6, 1938
Description The article announces the entry of the Switzerland Company's claim against the State Highway Commission for compensation for the land taken for the Blue Ridge Parkway right-of-way.
Commentary Box 10, folder 539.
Location Location Name: Little Switzerland
Parkway Milepost: 330.8
Latitude: 35.849672
Longitude: -82.091147
Creator Organization Raleigh News and Observer
Tags Blue Ridge Parkway--Right-of-way
Little Switzerland (N.C.)
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Switzerland Company
Credit Francis O. Clarkson Papers, #3275, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.