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Title View from Top Looking Direction of Fishers Peak
Date August 1936
Description Scenic view looking in direction of Fishers Peak at Cumberland Knob, off of section 2A, milepost 217.5 of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Image taken from the National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway Headquarters and taken by A.S. Burns in August 1936.
Location Location Name: Cumberland Knob
Parkway Milepost: 217.5
Latitude: 36.55013
Longitude: -80.90869
Creator Individual A.S. Burns
Tags Alleghany County (N.C.)
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Cumberland Knob (N.C.)
Fisher Peak (N.C.)
Landscape
Photographs
Scenery
Wildlife
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway