Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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| Title | Retaining Wall Construction |
| Date | November 6, 1936 |
| Description | Photograph shows workers constructing a stone retaining wall on a partially-cleared hillside in section 2M of the Blue Ridge Parkway. |
| Commentary | Construction in a mountainous region provided designers with challenges at times when it came to constructing the Blue Ridge Parkway. Due to this, many landscape alterations became necessary. In this picture workers are constructing a retaining wall in order to better support the parkway. The retaining walls were often built in one of two ways- through rubble embankments or cement. |
| Location |
Location Name: Section 2M Parkway Milepost: None
Latitude: 35.788139
Longitude: -82.167372 |
| Creator Individual | W.D. Stanton |
| Tags |
Cement
Photographs Retaining walls Slope clearing Stone carving Stonemasonry Walls Workers |
| Credit | Courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives |
