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Title Guard Wall Stones
Title Note 2 of 2
Date May 22, 1941
Description A completed section of the stone guard wall "erected by gov't forces" at section 2C of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Photograph labeled "Note: 1&2 stone laid on edge, 3&4 too wide for top of wall." Image taken from the North Carolina State Archives and taken by E.G. Middleton on May 22, 1941.
Location Location Name: Section 2C
Parkway Milepost: None
Latitude: 36.416769
Longitude: -81.193564
Creator Individual E.G. Middleton
Tags Alleghany County (N.C.)
Bluffs
Doughton Park (N.C.)
Guard walls
Photographs
Stone carving
Stonemasonry
The Bluffs (N.C.)
Walls
Credit Courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives