Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Cades Cove Road & Laurel Creek Road, From Townsend Wye to Cades Cove, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, TN

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

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1969 - 1980

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