Blue Ridge Parkway
By the mid-1800s, the village of Mons, which is Latin for mountain, had grown up around the Peaks of Otter. There was a church, a school, two mills, and a hotel. The small community provided services to tourists who had discovered the Peaks of Otter as a prime destination resort. This pattern of vacationing in the southern mountains continued into the automobile era and helped fuel the dreams of the Blue Ridge Parkway. A short hike around Abbott Lake takes you to Polly Woods Ordinary, a lodge providing the "ordinary" needs of travelers to the Peaks as early as the 1830s.| HM Number | HM2H94 |
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| Placed By | National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 at 5:01pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 17S E 622970 N 4145209 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 37.44556667, -79.60981667 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 37° 26.734', W 79° 36.589' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 37° 26' 44.04" N, 79° 36' 35.34" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near , , |
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