Tag: roads

Blue Ridge Parkway

20 September, 2007 (14:54) | East Carolina Manuscript Collection, photographs | By: Dale Sauter

Source: Capus Waynick Papers, Manuscript Collection 421 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: This week’s staff pick celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the completion of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Originally a Depression-era public works project, the original groundbreaking took place in September 1935. In 1987 the last section was completed near Grandfather Mountain. The parkway is [...]