Building the Blue Ridge Parkway
- ISBN-10
- 0738552879
- ISBN-13
- 9780738552873
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Arcadia Publishing
- Author
- Karen J. Hall
Description
With the aid of two-hundred construction photographs, an addition to the Images of America series chronicles the construction project that began as part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal to create jobs in the region and created a 469-mile scenic highway that was completed in 1983. Original.
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