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Set in Stone

Stonemasons , engineers, landscape architects, surveyors and so many others were part of the building of the Blue Ridge Parkway, between 1935 and 1987, milepost 1 to milepost 469, Cumberland Knob groundbreaking to Linn Cove Viaduct completion.

Our Ancient and Settled Landscape

I made two major life decisions in the summer of 1975, both of them related to my career and my dedication to the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Not Just Another Road

Gary Johnson remembers the day in the spring of 1975 when the chairman of Virginia Tech’s landscape architecture department announced that the Blue Ridge Parkway was looking for student landscape architects who wanted summer jobs.

His Father’s Vision

Stanley Abbott, a young-faced Cornell graduate from New England, took on the design of the Blue Ridge Parkway while still in his 20s, hired as the parkway’s acting superintendent and first resident landscape architect in 1936.

Parkway: Postbellum

Blue Ridge Parkway know the immediate draw: the views. But dig deeper and you’ll find the infamous mountains are rich with Civil War history as intriguing as the scenery.

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Set in Stone

Stonemasons , engineers, landscape architects, surveyors and so many others were part of the building of the Blue Ridge Parkway, between 1935 and 1987, milepost 1 to milepost 469, Cumberland Knob groundbreaking to Linn Cove Viaduct completion.

Our Ancient and Settled Landscape

I made two major life decisions in the summer of 1975, both of them related to my career and my dedication to the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Blue Ridge Parkway

Not Just Another Road

Gary Johnson remembers the day in the spring of 1975 when the chairman of Virginia Tech’s landscape architecture department announced that the Blue Ridge Parkway was looking for student landscape architects who wanted summer jobs.
Stanley Abbott, a young-faced Cornell graduate from New England, took on the design of the Blue Ridge Parkway while still in his 20s, hired as the parkway’s acting superintendent and first resident landscape architect in 1936.

His Father’s Vision

Stanley Abbott, a young-faced Cornell graduate from New England, took on the design of the Blue Ridge Parkway while still in his 20s, hired as the parkway’s acting superintendent and first resident landscape architect in 1936.
Abbott Lake at the Peaks of Otter

Parkway: Postbellum

Blue Ridge Parkway know the immediate draw: the views. But dig deeper and you’ll find the infamous mountains are rich with Civil War history as intriguing as the scenery.
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