Blue Ridge Parkway curving road past farm and pasture – Vintage Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Blue Ridge Parkway curving road past farm and pasture. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Blue Ridge Parkway curving road past farm and pasture
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The Blue Ridge Parkway runs roughly 469 miles along the crest of the southern Appalachians, and this view shows one of its signature stretches, a road bending past a working farm and open pasture. The parkway was designed in the 1930s as a scenic route linking Shenandoah National Park in Virginia with the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the New Deal era's push to build public works that put people to work while opening up the countryside. Its builders deliberately routed the road to follow ridgelines and frame long views, so that pastures and farmsteads like the one here became part of the drive itself. Notice how the gentle curve and the rolling green fields reflect the parkway's goal of showing the region's agricultural landscape as much as its mountains.
| Original scan | 4,624 × 3,581 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 345710pu |
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