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Virginia's Natural Bridge

This Virginia Treasure is one of the beauties of Natural Bridge State Park, an Affiliated Unit of the National Park Service.

 

Once owned by Thomas Jefferson and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the 215-foot tall Natural Bridge is a limestone gorge carved out by Cedar Creek.

 

George Washington also came to the site in 1750 as a young surveyor. The initials "G.W." on the wall of the bridge, 23 feet up, were carved by the future president. In 1927, a large stone was found, also engraved "G.W." and bearing a surveyor's cross, which historians accepted as proof that he indeed surveyed the bridge.

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Uploaded on October 11, 2021
Taken on June 13, 2008