Building The Blue Ridge Parkway
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Author | : Karen J. Hall |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2007-08-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1439619395 |
The Blue Ridge Parkway began as a dream in the late 1800s and became reality in 1983 when the 469-mile scenic highway was completed. Heavy construction was done by contractors who won bids for the different projects along various sections of the parkway. Construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway began in September 1935 at Cumberland Knob. Civilian Conservation Corps troops took care of the roadsides, landscaping, and structure building. As part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, this project was intended to provide jobs throughout the region. Images of America: Building the Blue Ridge Parkway contains approximately 200 construction photographs of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Author | : Anne Mitchell Whisnant |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2006-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807898422 |
The most visited site in the National Park system, the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway winds along the ridges of the Appalachian mountains in Virginia and North Carolina. According to most accounts, the Parkway was a New Deal "Godsend for the needy," built without conflict or opposition by landscape architects and planners who traced their vision along a scenic, isolated southern landscape. The historical archives relating to this massive public project, however, tell a different and much more complicated story, which Anne Mitchell Whisnant relates in this revealing history of the beloved roadway.
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Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Blue Ridge Mountains |
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Author | : Sue Eisenfeld |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2015-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0803265395 |
For fifteen years Sue Eisenfeld hiked in Shenandoah National Park in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, unaware of the tragic history behind the creation of the park. In this travel narrative, she tells the story of her on-the-ground discovery of the relics and memories a few thousand mountain residents left behind when the government used eminent domain to kick the people off their land to create the park. With historic maps and notes from hikers who explored before her, Eisenfeld and her husband hike, backpack, and bushwhack the hills and the hollows of this beloved but misbegotten place, searching for stories. Descendants recount memories of their ancestors “grieving themselves to death,” and they continue to speak of their people’s displacement from the land as an untold national tragedy. Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal is Eisenfeld’s personal journey into the park’s hidden past based on her off-trail explorations. She describes the turmoil of residents’ removal as well as the human face of the government officials behind the formation of the park. In this conflict between conservation for the benefit of a nation and private land ownership, she explores her own complicated personal relationship with the park—a relationship she would not have without the heartbreak of the thousands of people removed from their homes. Purchase the audio edition.
Author | : National Building Museum (U.S.) |
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Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Blue Ridge Parkway (N.C. and Va.) |
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Author | : Harley E. Jolley |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780870491009 |
This book is an overview of the Blue Ridge Parkway's first fifty years, with photographs by William Bake. Noted Blue Ridge Parkway Historian, Harley E. Jolley, wrote the descriptions and text.
Author | : Marci Spencer |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2020-06-15 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1439669856 |
Around 1919, George Weston left New York to return to his boyhood home in the Arden-Fletcher area of Western North Carolina. The US government had recently established Pisgah National Forest by purchasing 80,000 acres from Edith, George Vanderbilt's widow; lands deserted by logging companies; and other tracts. While superintendent of farms at the Biltmore Estate, Weston had admired those mountainous landscapes. About two miles from Mount Pisgah and a mile from Vanderbilt's private Buck Spring Lodge, Weston constructed Pisgah Inn on property leased from the US Forest Service. Visitors came from across the country and around the world to stay and dine at Pisgah Inn. By the 1940s, the construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway brought drastic changes across the narrow, isolated Pisgah ridgeline. Today, a more modern 1960s lodge welcomes guests to its grand views and preserves the history, charm, and natural setting of the original Pisgah Inn.
Author | : Mary E. Lyons |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2014-02-25 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1625849524 |
The true story of the construction of the historic Crozet railroad tunnel—as seen through the eyes of three Irish immigrant families who helped build it. In one of the greatest engineering feats of the time, Claudius Crozet led the completion of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Tunnel in 1858. More than a century and a half later, the tunnel stands as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, but the stories and lives of those who built it are the true lasting triumph. Irish immigrants fleeing the Great Hunger poured into America resolved to find something to call their own. They would persevere through life in overcrowded shanties and years of blasting through rock to see the tunnel to completion. In this intriguing history, Mary E. Lyons follows three Irish families in their struggle to build Crozet’s famed tunnel—and their American dream. Includes photos and illustrations
Author | : Tim Barnwell |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Blue Ridge Parkway (N.C. and Va.) |
ISBN | : 9780990573197 |
Second edition of Blue Ridge Parkway Vistas book
Author | : Richard C. Davids |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780800612375 |
This biography of Reverend Bob Childress of the Blue Ridge Mountains has been compared to the tales of Mark Twain and the Mississippi. Shows Childress' transforming effects on rough and wild mountain communities.