Skyway construction: blasting

Skyway construction: blasting

Construction projects

Retaining walls

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

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

Explosions

This photograph, by R. T. Jackson, shows methods of protecting trees from blasting. At the right is a section of a retaining wall. The skyline road, or “Skyway” from Newfound Gap to Kuwohi (Clingmans Dome 1859-2024) was the first major road project undertaken by the federal government in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Constructed between 1933 and 1935, originally, the road was planned to continue on to Deals Gap.

Jackson, R. T.

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

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