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Foothills Parkway — The Missing Link

Townsend, TN

A long-unfinished section of the Foothills Parkway became known as the Missing Link because rugged terrain and engineering challenges delayed completion for decades. The finished roadway now lets travelers drive through a piece of National Park Service infrastructure history.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/grsm/planyourvisit/foothillsparkway.htm

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