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Title Guard wall (sample sec.) Show rear elevation of wall and rear batter.
Date August 1941
Description Photograph shows road running between a stone guard wall and a steep rock embankment in section 2C of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Taken by A. S. Burns in August 1941.
Location Location Name: Milepost 237
Parkway Milepost: 237.0
Latitude: 36.429657
Longitude: -81.124149
Creator Individual A.S. Burns
Tags Alleghany County (N.C.)
Guard walls
Photographs
Roads
Rock cuts
Rocks
Stone carving
Stonemasonry
View of road
Walls
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway