Image: Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Description: Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved congestion on U.S. Route 1 (Baltimore-Washington Boulevard). The parkway was constructed to connect federal installations, including Fort George Meade and the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (USDA), to the District of Columbia. The parkway was considered a vital defense road during World War II and the Cold War. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N745 Survey number: HAER MD-129 Building/structure dates: 1942-1954 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1957 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1962 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1990-1996 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: ca. 2000 Subsequent Work
Title: Baltimore - Washington Parkway 1954-1999. NPS Roads & Bridges Recording Project. Title Sheet - Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD DRAWINGS FROM SURVEY HAER MD-129
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Author: Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service; Michelle Matulac delineator
Permission: Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information. Creator: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Engineering Record. Survey number HAER MD129 Source: U.S. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, "Built in America" Collection. Copyright: "The original measured drawings and most of the photographs and data pages in HABS/HAER/HALS were created for the U.S. Government and are considered to be in the public domain." Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. See Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscape Survey Collection: Rights and Restrictions Information
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