Super-Scenic Motorway

A Blue Ridge Parkway History

Nonfiction, Travel, United States, South, History, Americas
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Author: Anne Mitchell Whisnant ISBN: 9780807898420
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Publication: October 2, 2006
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press Language: English
Author: Anne Mitchell Whisnant
ISBN: 9780807898420
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication: October 2, 2006
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Language: English

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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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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