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On the payroll for the construction project for that first section were 161 men, including five superintendents, four timekeepers, 11 foremen, nine shovel operators, nine shovel oilers, nine tractor operators, 23 truck drivers, one team driver, 28 drillers and compressor men, 11 blacksmiths and helpers, two master mechanics and 67 laborers. One hundred and six were local men. Laborers average 25 cents per hour. Thirty nine others from Page, Rappahannock, Madison, Greene and Rockingham is skilled classifications received wages as high as 50 cents per hour.
The contracts for the construction work on the Panorama to Swift Run section allowed 300 working days for completion. A 60-day extension was granted and in the late summer of 1932, it was announced that the public would be welcomed for an advance opening Oct. 22 through Nov. 30. But it was insisted that gates be closed whenever fog or slippery conditions occurred and anyone entering had to sign a form releasing the government, contractors and employees from legal responsibility.
The last 31-mile south section of the highway opened on Aug. 29, 1939. Cost of the total 97 miles was about $4,359,000 or an average of $47,000 per mile.
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The gardens at Oatlands near Leesburg in Loudoun County.
“Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth. ” — Sir Thomas Browne
“Time passes, memories remain,” reads the legend on the bronze sundial stop its pink marble and granite pedastal at Oatlands.
The terraced formal garden would itself have passed, leaving only a memory, had it not been for Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis.
See Wonders, Page 10
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