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251. Rocky Knob Recreation Area contact station. In the foreground S one of the rock fins which is representative of the area. In the background is the contact station which opened as a gas station in September 1949. Facing northwest. - Blue Ridge Parkway, Between Shenandoah National Park & Great Smoky Mountains, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--251 (CT) | HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--251 (CT) -
252. Mabry Mill. View of the mill and the NPS dredged reflecting pond which illustrates how the parkway has manipulated the landscape to make it more picturesque. Looking north-northwest from interpretative trail. - Blue Ridge Parkway, Between Shenandoah National Park & Great Smoky Mountains, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--252 (CT) | HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--252 (CT) -
253. Mabry Mill. The varying roof lines and siding gives the mill an interesting texture, increasing its photogenic value. Looking north. - Blue Ridge Parkway, Between Shenandoah National Park & Great Smoky Mountains, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--253 (CT) | HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--253 (CT) -
254. Doughton Park. View of the Martin Brinegar cabin which was restored for interpretative purposed in 1941 with the preparation of measured drawings for the Historic American Buildings Survey. The actual restoration was carried out by WPA forces. The grounds around the cabin were treated as an interpretative landscape rather than a historic restoration. This one of two sites along the parkway where an ...
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--254 (CT) | HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--254 (CT) -
255. View looking north of Mount Jefferson from Mount Jefferson overlook. - Blue Ridge Parkway, Between Shenandoah National Park & Great Smoky Mountains, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--255 (CT) | HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--255 (CT) -
256. Linn Cove Viaduct. This is the first precast concrete segmental concrete segmental viaduct to be built with the progressive method in the United States. It contains nearly every type of highway construction within its length. With is super elevation of up to ten degrees and its tight horizontal and spiral curves, it was the most complicated bridge of its type built to that ...
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--256 (CT) | HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--256 (CT) -
257. North Carolina Route 181 grade separation structure is a single-span, reinforced concrete, elliptical spandrel arch structure built in 1959, it is on a slight skew as it passes over the parkway accounting for its wide span of 80. It is one of the few structures to pass over the parkway. This view is to the north. - Blue Ridge Parkway, Between Shenandoah National ...
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--257 (CT) | HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--257 (CT) -
258. View of wildflowers along the parkway. - Blue Ridge Parkway, Between Shenandoah National Park & Great Smoky Mountains, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--258 (CT) | HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--258 (CT) -
259. View of the stone curbing used at the Hefner Overlook. This is a common feature at all overlooks on the parkway. All stone on the parkway, except for the Linn Cove Viaduct was quarried from within fifty miles of where it was used. Looking north. - Blue Ridge Parkway, Between Shenandoah National Park & Great Smoky Mountains, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--259 (CT) | HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--259 (CT) -
260. View of the Pinnacle Lake Overlook. Example of location where designers placed an overlook on the outside of a curve instead of leaving the remnants of a rock cut visible. View to the south. - Blue Ridge Parkway, Between Shenandoah National Park & Great Smoky Mountains, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--260 (CT) | HAER NC,11-ASHV.V,2--260 (CT) -
1. U.S. Route 250 grade separation structure. This reinforced concrete, rigid frame structure was built in 1941. Its relatively flat arch provided maximum useful clearance in a short span and the physics of the design eliminated the need for extensive abutments to contain the thrust of traditional arches, making it ideally suited as a grade separation structure. BLRI designers made extensive use of theses ...
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
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2. Humpback Rocks Visitor Center. Original was constructed in 1955 and opened 19 May 1956. Destroyed by arson in 1981, it was rebuilt as an expanded facility and opened the following year. In the foreground is a post-and-rail fence and a tower of truth. In the background to the right is a buck or Yankee Fence the view is west-northwest. - Blue Ridge Parkway, ...
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
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3. Humpback Rocks Visitor Center. View of the self-guided interpretive mountain farm trail and a post-and-rail fence in the foreground with humpback rocks in the background. The view is looking south. - Blue Ridge Parkway, Between Shenandoah National Park & Great Smoky Mountains, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
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4. Humpback Rocks Visitor Center. View of the Mountain Farm Exhibit located on the general site of the Old Charlie Carter Farm. To the left is the CA. 1890 single-crib log William Lawless Billy Ramsey house moved from below Robinson gap and to the right is a chicken house relocated from the John C. Clark Place about a mile north of Irish Gap. View ...
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
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5. Humpback Rocks Visitor Center. Closeup view of the unmortared hand-laid stone and doorway of the root cellar, relocated from the John C. Clark Place. View faces east-southeast. - Blue Ridge Parkway, Between Shenandoah National Park & Great Smoky Mountains, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
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6. Humpback Gap Overlook. View of stone rail-and-rider fences, commonly referred to as hog fences. There were built by civilian public service employees in 1943. An original wall crossed the mountain just south of Humpback Gap just south of Humpback Gap, but the new section was provided to be more visible to visitors. View faces west-northwest. - Blue Ridge Parkway, Between Shenandoah National Park ...
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
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7. Humpback Gap Overlook. View of stone rail-and-rider fences built in 1943 with the curvilinear alignment of the parkway in the background. View facing southwest. - Blue Ridge Parkway, Between Shenandoah National Park & Great Smoky Mountains, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
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8. View of one of the many rock cuts necessary to build the parkway. Looking to the west-southwest. - Blue Ridge Parkway, Between Shenandoah National Park & Great Smoky Mountains, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
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9. Raven's roost overlook detail of the rusticated stone retaining wall/railing and stone curbing. Facing west. - Blue Ridge Parkway, Between Shenandoah National Park & Great Smoky Mountains, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
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10. View of one of the many agricultural leases along the parkway and one of the few Axial Parkway alignments. Looking southwest. - Blue Ridge Parkway, Between Shenandoah National Park & Great Smoky Mountains, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC
4 x 5 in. | Haas, David
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