Record #:

43144

Author(s):

Averill, Graham

Abstract:

""in the mid-1930s, fueled by America's growing fascination with the automobile, President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched a massive program to cut a 469-mile road through the North Carolina and Virginia mountains. more than 80 years later, the Blue Ridge Parkway remains the most popular scenic byway in the country.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 89 Issue 5, October 2021, p122-132 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Blue Ridge Parkway; Pratt, Joseph Hyde, 1870-1942; Cumberland Knob Trail

Record #:

24483

Author(s):

West, John Foster

Abstract:

The Blue Ridge Parkway was not the first scenic road in the region. Dr. Joseph Pratt (1870-1942) mapped the Crest of the Blue Ridge Highway, a route planned in 1909 that went along much of the southern spine of the Blue Ridge.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 45 Issue 8, January 1978, p10-11, il, por

Subject(s):

Blue Ridge Parkway; Blue Ridge Parkway--History; Blue Ridge Parkway--Description and travel; Pratt, Joseph Hyde, 1870-1942