View from Cumberland Knob
About this photograph
- Date created
- May 28, 2007
- Location
- Cumberland Knob, Alleghany County, North Carolina
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2007. Terms of use
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This is the view from near the top of Cumberland Knob in Alleghany County, North Carolina. Cumberland Knob was the place where construction first began on the Blue Ridge Parkway in 1935, and it was the Parkway’s first recreation area.
