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Title Dunlap Terms Award Unusual
Title Note Transcript of an article in the News & Observer
Date December 13, 1938
Description Reports that Frank Dunlap, chairman of the State Highway Commission, felt that the appraisal committee's decision that the Switzerland Company should receive $27,111 for land taken for the Blue Ridge Parkway was "an unusual award, made in an unusual manner, involves an unusual amount of money and will not be considered routine by the commission."
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 Dunlap, Frank L.
Lawsuits
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.