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Title Cleared ridge
Date February 10, 1937
Description Photograph shows construction equipment and machinery on a cleared path cut into a hillside in section 2M of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Location Location Name: Section 2M
Parkway Milepost: None
Latitude: 35.788139
Longitude: -82.167372
Creator Individual W.D. Stanton
Tags Alleghany County (N.C.)
Construction
Construction equipment
Excavation
Land construction
Machinery
Photographs
Road construction
Slope clearing
Credit Courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives