Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History

by Anne Mitchell Whisnant

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807871265
• ISBN13: 9780807871263
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"