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  • Parkway Birthday

    What started as a stimulus project 75 years ago, has become a tremendous asset to the region's economy and quality of life, said U.S. Congressman Rick Boucher, as he stood on a warm, sunny Friday morning before a crowd at Cumberland Knob, with the Blue Ridge Mountains as the backdrop, during the Blue Ridge Parkway 75th anniversary ceremony.

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  • Guynn driven to help national park

    In the midst of a depression in the 1930s and ‘40s, there wasn’t much recreation going on in Galax — except for visits to the Blue Ridge Parkway.
    Many people went to Cumberland Knob — where the parkway began in 1935 — to grill, picnic and walk the trails because it was free and beautiful, Mary Guynn recalls.

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  • Our Parkway: A Milepost-By-Milepost Tour

    Millions of people from across the United States visit the Blue Ridge Parkway each year, drawn by scenic views and the attractions that preserve America's rural past.

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  • Parkway anniversary activities abound this weekend

    The Blue Ridge Parkway’s 75th Anniversary Festival will span three days, two main venues in two states and four local communities, as the National Park Service celebrates its most-visited park.

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  • Center preserves music of the mountains

    The Blue Ridge Music Center started as an idea shortly after the 50th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway in 1985, and has since brought thousands to its concerts, jams, exhibits and visitor center.

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  • Parkway's 'gateway communities' to celebrate

    This year marks the 75th anniversary of the date construction began on the 469-mile "All-American Scenic Byway."
    Work on the Blue Ridge Parkway began Sept. 11, 1935, at Cumberland Knob, near the North Carolina and Virginia border at milepost 217.

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  • Antique Roadtrip

    A group of 75 antique and classic cars will be a part of the Blue Ridge Parkway's 75th anniversary celebration on Sept. 11.
    Tom Littrell, president of the Twin County Region Antique Automobile Club of America, started a year ago trying to find 75 people who would drive their antique and classic cars through local communities in celebration of the anniversary.

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  • Blue Ridge Parkway visitors spend $500 million in Va.

    Gazette writers Christopher Brooke and April Wright contributed to this article.

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  • Fancy Gap visitors' center almost ready

    FANCY GAP — Rome wasn't built in a day, but the Romans probably could have taken a few cues from the Fancy Gap visitors' center work.
    Seeming to spring up next to the Pickin' Porch and an electronic kiosk on U.S. 52, first benches appeared as a Boy Scout Eagle and community service project.

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  • Tourists making Galax their destination

    In the past three months that the Galax Visitors' Center has been opened, it has served 2,500 tourists from across the nation and around the world, center director Ray Kohl told  Galax City Council last Monday.
    Visitors to Galax have came from England, France, Canada, Australia, Austria, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Mexico, Ireland, Scotland, Brazil and Cuba and Puerto Rico.

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