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
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
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html