Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway HistoryUniv of North Carolina Press, 2006 M10 2 - 464 pages 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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... Hotel, Madison County, North Carolina, before 1886 21 Map of the National Park-to-Park Highway, 1920 25 Map of the proposed Eastern National Park-to-Park Highway, 1931 31 Bronx River Parkway, 1922 41 Machinery and men from the Nello ...
... Hotel, Madison County, North Carolina, before 1886 21 Map of the National Park-to-Park Highway, 1920 25 Map of the proposed Eastern National Park-to-Park Highway, 1931 31 Bronx River Parkway, 1922 41 Machinery and men from the Nello ...
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... Hotel Mons complex, Peaks of Otter, 1920s 224 Bryant Family at the Peaks of Otter, ca. 1925 225 Bryant/Johnson Farm at the Peaks of Otter, ca. 1920 226 The Peaks of Otter with the city of Bedford in the foreground, 1938 228 Preliminary ...
... Hotel Mons complex, Peaks of Otter, 1920s 224 Bryant Family at the Peaks of Otter, ca. 1925 225 Bryant/Johnson Farm at the Peaks of Otter, ca. 1920 226 The Peaks of Otter with the city of Bedford in the foreground, 1938 228 Preliminary ...
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... Hotel Mons and helped the National Park Service to acquire area land for the Parkway in the late 1930s. The chapter details how the Park Service reshaped the landscape at the Peaks from the 1940s onward [ 10 ] introduction.
... Hotel Mons and helped the National Park Service to acquire area land for the Parkway in the late 1930s. The chapter details how the Park Service reshaped the landscape at the Peaks from the 1940s onward [ 10 ] introduction.
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... Hotel, Madison County, North Carolina,. Among six such highways planned for North Carolina was the Crest of the Blue beginning in the 1830s. North Carolina Collection, University of North. [ 20 ] roads, parks, and tourism.
... Hotel, Madison County, North Carolina,. Among six such highways planned for North Carolina was the Crest of the Blue beginning in the 1830s. North Carolina Collection, University of North. [ 20 ] roads, parks, and tourism.
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A Blue Ridge Parkway History Anne Mitchell Whisnant. Arrival of stage, Warm Springs Hotel, Madison County, North Carolina, before 1886. The location of Warm Springs (later Hot Springs) along the Buncombe Turnpike made it attractive for ...
A Blue Ridge Parkway History Anne Mitchell Whisnant. Arrival of stage, Warm Springs Hotel, Madison County, North Carolina, before 1886. The location of Warm Springs (later Hot Springs) along the Buncombe Turnpike made it attractive for ...
Contents
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The Parkway and Ashevilles Tourism Industry | 52 |
Parkway Ideals and Local Realities | 108 |
Little Switzerland Regional Tourism and the Parkway | 156 |
Parkway Development Cultural Landscaping and the Eastern Band of Cherokees | 183 |
Telling History on the Parkway Landscape | 214 |
Private Interests and the Public Good at Grandfather Mountain | 263 |
Epilogue The Parkways Past Its Present and the Ongoing Search for the Public Good | 326 |
Notes | 331 |
Bibliography | 395 |
Index | 417 |
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