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Making America's Best Idea Even Better
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Blue Ridge Parkway
Historic Photographs of Parkway Construction
1930s Parkway photograph
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America's love of the automobile fueled the drive for construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
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Did You Know?
The first contract for work on the Blue Ridge Parkway, awarded to Nello Teer Construction Company of Durham, NC in the heighth of the Great Depression, was for over $316,000.

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