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    Slow Travels-Blue Ridge Parkway
    Slow Travels-Blue Ridge Parkway
    Slow Travels-Blue Ridge Parkway
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    Slow Travels-Blue Ridge Parkway

    By Lyn Wilkerson

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    This edition of the Slow Travels Series commemorates the 75th Anniversary of the beginning of the Blue Ridge Parkway construction. The segments of the parkway are separated into the Virginia and North Carolina sections. This guide is not intended to be a history of the Blue Ridge Parkway, but a guide to the history which lies along it and in the surrounding region.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLyn Wilkerson
    Release dateJun 14, 2010
    ISBN9781452328263
    Slow Travels-Blue Ridge Parkway
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    Lyn Wilkerson

    Caddo Publications USA was created in 2000 to encourage the exploration of America’s history by the typical automotive traveler. The intent of Caddo Publications USA is to provide support to both national and local historical organizations as historical guides are developed in various digital and traditional print formats. Using the American Guide series of the 1930’s and 40’s as our inspiration, we began to develop historical travel guides for the U.S. in the 1990’s.

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      Slow Travels-Blue Ridge Parkway - Lyn Wilkerson

      While every effort has been made to insure accuracy, neither the author nor the publisher assume legal responsibility for any consequences arising from the use of this book or the information it contains.

      All maps are by the author.

      Slow Travels-Blue Ridge Parkway Edition

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      Lyn Wilkerson

      All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2010 Lyn Wilkerson

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Introduction

      This guide, along with the various others produced by Lyn Wilkerson and Caddo Publications USA, are based on the American Guide Series. Until the mid-1950’s, the U.S. Highway System provided the means for various modes of transport to explore this diverse land. To encourage such explorations, the Works Projects Administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Federal Writers Project created the American Guide Series. This series of books were commissioned by the Federal Government to capture the culture and history of the United States and provide the direction necessary for travelers to explore it. Each state created a commission of writers who canvassed their respective territories for content to submit. The preliminary works were then sent to Washington D.C. for final assembly in to a standard format. The result was a travel guide for each state. The series spread to include guides for important cities as well. After the State Guides were complete, the concept of a national guide was developed. However, it would not be until 1949, with the backing of Hastings House Publishing, that a true national guide would be created. Through several rounds of condensing, the final product maintained much of the most essential points of interest and the most colorful material.

      To quote from the California edition of the American Guide Series, romance has been kept in its place. . . The intent of this guide is to provide information about the historic sites, towns, and landmarks along the chosen routes, and to provide background information and stories for what lies in-between. It is not our desire to dramatize the history or expand on it in any way. We believe that the character and culture of this state, and our country as a whole, can speak for itself. The guide has been created, not for just travelers new to the city, but for current residents who may not realize what lies just around the corner in their own neighborhood. The goal of Caddo Publications USA is to encourage the exploration of the rich history that many of us drive by on a regular basis without any sense it existed, and to entertain and educate so that history will not be lost in the future.

      Table of Contents

      Blue Ridge Parkway-Virginia

      Blue Ridge Parkway-North Carolina

      Blue Ridge Parkway-Virginia

      Much of the Blue Ridge area of Virginia is characterized by broad areas of undulating relief at a relatively high elevation. Into that relief have been cut numerous ravines and broad valleys. In the valleys or coves deeply incised into the flanks of the uplands, settlement is confined to the valleys. Roads follow the valleys and farms are situated in the valleys and minor hollows and perched on the lower hill slopes. The farms are small and many of the clearings lie on extremely steep hillsides. Some of the gentler slopes are occupied by orchards; but elsewhere general farming at a rather low level prevails.

      Owing to the rugged beauty of these wooded slopes (about two-thirds of the land is in forest) and the ease of accessibility by automobile over modern roads, the area is easily visited by tourists. The scenic highway atop the southern Appalachians, the Blue Ridge parkway, paralleled and at times joined by a U. S. numbered highway, runs across the map. Several scenic viewpoints designated overlook, are indicated along it. Heavily trafficked by hikers, a segment of the Maine-to-Georgia Appalachian Trail crosses the area here utilizing secondary roads.i

      The travel route for the Blue Ridge Parkway begins where the Parkway and Skyline Drive come together, at U.S. Highway 250 and Exit 99 on Interstate Highway 64. This first portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway is identified as Section 1-B, from Rockfish Gap to Humpback Gap. Construction was begun on July 8th, 1939, with construction complete on November 20th, 1940.

      Junction with U.S. Highway 250

      The commission appointed to select a site for the University of Virginia met on August 1st to the 4th, 1818, in the tavern that stood nearby this junction. Among the 21 members present were former presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, as well as judges Spencer Roane, Archibald Stuart, and Creed Taylor. The commissioners chose Charlottesville over Lexington and Staunton for the site of the university. The tavern at which they met was owned by Samuel Leake (1790-1858) and Walter Leake (1792-1859). Enlarged later, as part of the Mountain Top Hotel and Springs, the popular tavern burned in 1909.

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