Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Cades Cove Road & Laurel Creek Road, From Townsend Wye to Cades Cove, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, TN
Summary
Significance: The transportation system of Great Smoky Mountains National Park is representative of NPS park road design and landscape planning throughout the country. Much of the conservation work was undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the 1930s.
Survey number: HAER TN-35-D
Building/structure dates: ca. 1825 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: after. 1930- before. 1959 Subsequent Work
Tags
civilian conservation corps
mission 66 program
transportation
concession
revetments
tunnels
parking lots
baptist churches
log cabins
barns
mills
concrete girder bridges
culverts
stone cladding
arch bridges
gatlinburg
great
smoky
mountains
great smoky mountains national park roads
bridges
cades
cove
cades cove road
laurel
laurel creek road
townsend
wye
townsend wye
cades cove
sevier
sevier county
bridge
national park
tennessee
blalock and sons
bureau of public roads
f and e construction company
fort louden construction company
gatlinburg construction company
historic american engineering record
edward lupyak
summers taylor paving company
photo
ultra high resolution
high resolution
building
church buildings
library of congress
tennessee history
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Bureau of Public Roads
Gatlinburg Construction Company
Summers-Taylor Paving Company
Fort Louden Construction Company
F & E Construction Company
Blalock & Sons
Lupyak, Edward, field team project manager
Location
Gatlinburg
,
35.71155, -83.49751
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
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