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Celebration of completion of a highway project. The picture features a crowd and numerous parked automobiles in the vicinity of a highway through a rural area in north central West Virginia.

1. Celebrating Paving of Highway

IDNO:
000024
Title:
Celebrating Paving of Highway
Date:
ca. 1925-1930
Description:
Celebration of completion of a highway project. The picture features a crowd and numerous parked automobiles in the vicinity of a highway through a rural area in north central West Virginia.
Workers use a horse drawn tool to dig up a dirt road for improvement project.

2. Road Crew at Work

IDNO:
025154
Title:
Road Crew at Work
Description:
Workers use a horse drawn tool to dig up a dirt road for improvement project.
Bricks stacked beside the road bed.

3. Road Under Construction

IDNO:
025155
Title:
Road Under Construction
Date:
1912/09
Description:
Bricks stacked beside the road bed.
Road building crew paving a road.

4. Cement Mixer Delivering Concrete to Road Bed

IDNO:
025607
Title:
Cement Mixer Delivering Concrete to Road Bed
Description:
Road building crew paving a road.
Paving a new West Virginia Road.

5. Cement Mixer Delivering Concrete to Road Bed

IDNO:
025608
Title:
Cement Mixer Delivering Concrete to Road Bed
Description:
Paving a new West Virginia Road.
Text on the back reads, "The above aerial photo from the Department of Highways shows the area of Corridor "E" which includes the Cooper's Rock interchange in Cooper's Rock State Forest. The Harry Miller Excavating Company of Suffield, Ohio, is contractor for the work. Some 23 miles of construction currently is under way on the corridor in Monongalia and Preston counties at a cost of $50 million. The construction extends from near the western boundary of the forest all the way to the Maryland State Line, and also includes a three-mile segment which connects with Interstate 79 at Morgantown. Corridor "E" will be a four-lane highway from I-79 to the Maryland line for a total length of 31 miles."

6. Cooper's Rock Interchange on Corridor "E", Near Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
053133
Title:
Cooper's Rock Interchange on Corridor "E", Near Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1971/11/09
Description:
Text on the back reads, "The above aerial photo from the Department of Highways shows the area of Corridor "E" which includes the Cooper's Rock interchange in Cooper's Rock State Forest. The Harry Miller Excavating Company of Suffield, Ohio, is contractor for the work. Some 23 miles of construction currently is under way on the corridor in Monongalia and Preston counties at a cost of $50 million. The construction extends from near the western boundary of the forest all the way to the Maryland State Line, and also includes a three-mile segment which connects with Interstate 79 at Morgantown. Corridor "E" will be a four-lane highway from I-79 to the Maryland line for a total length of 31 miles."