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Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Heintooga Round Bottom Road & Balsam Mountain Road, Between Blue Ridge Parkway & Big Cove Road, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, TN
Summary
Significance: The transportation system of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is representative of NPS park road design and landscape planning throughout the country. Much of the construction, including that of the Heintooga Round Bottom Road and Balsam Mountain Road, was undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the 1930s. Once established, this road system provided access to 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-M
Building/structure dates: after. 1930- before. 1970 Initial Construction
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Bureau of Public Roads
Civilian Conservation Corps
Suncrest Lumber Company
Parsons Pulp & Lumber Company
Albright, Horace
Gatlinburg Construction Company
Hart Construction Company
Lupyak, Edward, field team project manager
Regnier, Matthew, delineator
Young, Karen, delineator
Sikora, Dorota, delineator
Maher, Cornelius, historian
Kelleher, Michael, historian
Haas, David, photographer
Location
Gatlinburg, 35.70717, -83.54251
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
