Below Sling's Gap (1932)
Description:
The view north and east from a point along the old route of the Appalachian Trail approximately two miles south of Sling's Gap.
The man in the photograph is Shirley L. Cole, the County Agent in Floyd County, and the original overseer of the Appalachian Trail in Southwestern Virginia. The photograph is from ATC Chairman Myron Avery's personal scrapbooks and was taken during one of several scouting expeditions he took with Cole in the region between 1930-1932.
Collection:
Lost Appalachian Trail
Date:
1932
Creator:
Myron Avery
Subject
Lost Appalachian TrailContributor
Mills KellyFormat
Black and white photographSource:
Myron Avery Scrapbooks. Appalachian Trail Conservancy Archives. Used with permission.
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All rights reservedCitation
Myron Avery, “Below Sling's Gap (1932),” Appalachian Trail Histories, accessed November 21, 2024, https://appalachiantrailhistory.org/items/show/951.
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