Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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| Title | Men at HPRE Wall |
| Date | December 5, 1936 |
| Description | Photograph shows a hand-placed rock embankment with wooden supports, workers, and a wooden piece of construction equipment in section 2C of the Blue Ridge Parkway. |
| Commentary | This picture shows part of section 2C under construction in December of 1936. Section 2C was not opened to the public until a little under a year later. Even the simplest of machinery could be necessary in stone masonry in parkway construction because of the slant and grading. This mechanism looks like it could be a pulley system for the laying the stones on the face where they would be hard to reach by hand. This picture is possibly taken in section 2-C between Air Bellows Gap and Doughton Park. This photo specifically refers to the "H.P.R.E. Face." |
| Location |
Location Name: Section 2C Parkway Milepost: None
Latitude: 36.416769
Longitude: -81.193564 |
| Creator Individual | W.D. Stanton |
| Tags |
Air Bellows Gap (N.C.)
Alleghany County (N.C.) Construction Construction equipment Doughton Park (N.C.) Land construction Photographs Retaining walls Rock embankments Rocks Walls Workers |
| Credit | Courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives |
