From the summer 2010 Blue Ridge Digest.
The Blue Ridge Parkway has sometimes been called "America's Favorite Drive" and was constructed to connect the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina.
Construction began 75 years ago, in 1935 for what was envisioned to be the nation's first elongated national park built specifically for the rise of the automobile.
But, it did not come to be overnight. It was the result of a long and tedious political struggle.
It began when President Franklin Roosevelt visited the newly constructed Skyline Drive in Virginia in 1933. Virginia US Senator Harry Byrd suggested it be extended to connect the newly-created Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The president liked the idea and got the governors of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee together and asked that they start a planning team.
More to Come. --RoadDog
RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
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