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Bridge over west prong, Little Pigeon River. - Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads and Bridges, Newfound Gap Road, Between Gatlinburg, TN and Cherokee, NC, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, TN
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Haas, David
Title
Bridge over west prong, Little Pigeon River. - Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads and Bridges, Newfound Gap Road, Between Gatlinburg, TN and Cherokee, NC, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, TN
Description
Bureau of Public Roads; Cammerer, Arno B; Bass, C N; Swain, C E; Tennessee Highway Commission; Peterson, Charles; Eakin, J Ross; Morrell, John; Spelman, H J; Lee, W I; Ludgate, Rowell; Arthur, Jack; Arundel Corporation; R B Tyler Company; C Y Thomason Company; King, Willis; Breslin Construction Company; Rockefeller, John D; Vint, Thomas; Olmsted, Frederick Law; Hubbard, Henry; Rice, Henry; Troitino and Brown Construction; H F Ramsey Company; Blalock Lumber Company; Clement Brothers Company; Hart Construction; Luten Bridge Company; Lupyak, Edward, field team project manager; Great Smoky Mountains National Park, sponsor; National Park Service Roads and Parkway Program, sponsor; Federal Lands Highway Program, sponsor; Croteau, Todd, project manager; Quin, Richard, project manager
Depicted place Tennessee; Sevier County; Gatlinburg
Date 1996
date QS:P571,+1996-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER TENN,78-GAT.V,6A-11
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Newfound Gap Road is the central transportation artery in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is the only road to cross the park from north to south, connecting the two major entrances at Gatlinburg, Tennessee and Cherokee, North Carolina. The transportation system of Great Smoky Mountains is representative of NPS park road design and landscape planning throughout the country. Much of the construction work was undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the 1930s. Once established, the first national park in the southern portion of the United States as well as links to the Blue Ridge Parkway and Shenandoah National Park.
  • Survey number: HAER TN-35-A
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1830 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/tn0278.photos.365839p
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