Newfound Gap Road construction

Newfound Gap Road construction

Blue collar workers

Construction projects

Road machinery -- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)

Roads -- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.) -- Design and construction

Mountain roads

In the mid-1920s, before the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was established, North Carolina and Tennessee agreed to build a road through the center of the proposed park. The previous road topped the ridge through Indian Gap, but the new paved road was planned a few miles to the east, through Newfound Gap. The park employed engineer and “master road builder,” John L. Humbard (1892-1955) to oversee the project. The photograph, along with a dozen others illustrating park construction, were donated to the park by Mary Clements Decker and John Hazard Decker.

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Decker Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1935

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photographs

eng

StillImage

22627

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/22627

2015-04-10

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Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)

Sevier County (Tenn.)

Swain County (N.C.)

Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)

2.75” x 4.5”(dimension)

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