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Title Men cleaning gutter
Date February 2, 1937
Description Photograph shows an automobile parked on the road and two men cleaning the gutter in section 2A of the Blue Ridge Parkway, with a stone cement gutter and drain running alongside the road. Notes on photograph say "Complete road south from 216 C/L."
Commentary This picture shows Section 2A in 1937 during its construction period from 1935 to 1939.
Location Location Name: Section 2A
Parkway Milepost: None
Latitude: 36.496308
Longitude: -80.955864
Creator Individual W.D. Stanton
Tags Alleghany County (N.C.)
Automobiles
Drainage
Gutters
People
Photographs
Road conditions
Roads
Stone carving
Stonemasonry
View of road
Workers
Credit Courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives