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Encyclopedia Britannica



NATURAL BRIDGE

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 274 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NAN-NEW
NATURAL BRIDGE , a small
village
  of Rockbridge county, Virginia, in the western part of the state, 179 M. by rail W. of Richmond, and about 16 m. S.E. of Lexington, the county-seat. It is served by the Chesapeake &
Ohio
  and the Norfolk & Western railways. In the vicinity of the
village
 , which is about 1500 ft.
above sea-level, is the
great
  natural curiosity from which it derives its namea
bridge
  of natural
rock
  90 ft. long and from 50 to 150 ft. wide, which spans
Cedar
  Creek at a height of 215 ft. above that stream. It consists of
horizontal
  limestone strata, and is the remains of the roof of a cave or underground tunnel through which the creek once flowed. It is crossed by a public road. In the village are
magnesia
  and lithia springs and a saltpetre cave, which was worked during the War of 1812 and the Civil War. A royal grant dated the 5th of July 1774 conveyed to
Thomas
  Jefferson a
tract
  of 157 acres, " including the Natural
Bridge
  on
Cedar
  Creek," and it did not pass from his estate until 1833.


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