Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 17 · column 4 of 4 · from the scan, no model involved
land. The Blue Ridge Mountains had been lived in for almost 200 years. Obtaining rights-of-way involved talking to the mountain property owners one at a time. Many of these people wanted the road, but as a common highway to use to go to market. There was some disappointment and resistance when the nature of the non-commercial parkway was defined.
Construction was not a continuous process, rather a section her, one there. The first ground-breaking began on September 11, 1935, at the Virginia-North Carolina state line. The last 10 miles around Grandfather Mountain are being completed this summer.
93.0%