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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.
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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.