Skyway construction: retaining wall

Skyway construction: retaining wall

Blue collar workers

Construction projects

Retaining walls -- Design and construction

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

Mountain roads

Road construction workers

This photograph shows the work on a retaining wall below the Skyway. The first major road project undertaken by the federal government in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was the skyline road, or “Skyway,” from Newfound Gap to Kuwohi (Clingmans Dome 1859-2024). Constructed between 1933 and 1935, originally, the road was planned to continue on to Deals Gap. This photograph, along with a dozen others illustrating park construction, were donated to the park by Mary Clements Decker and John Hazard Decker.

Unknown

Decker Collection

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

1934-06

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StillImage

22724

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2015-04-10

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Sevier County (Tenn.)

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

2.75” x 4.5”(dimension)

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