Category: Natural Bridge

History Off the Beaten Path: A Natural Wonder With Distinguished Ties

March 7, 2023
American EssenceArts & CultureBrightGeorge WashingtonHistoryNatural BridgeThomas Jefferson
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On my way up to see Pennsylvania family and friends from my home in western North Carolina, I spotted a small road sign in Rockbridge County, Virginia on Interstate 81 that piqued my interest. I pulled down a simple road and into a parking lot that indicated it was the entranceway to the official state…

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The ‘Most Sublime of Nature’s Works’

December 12, 2021
American EssenceAmerican InspirationGeorge WashingtonInspiredLife & TraditionNatural BridgeRadiant LifeThomas JeffersonVirginia
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One of Virginia’s most amazing architectural treasures wasn’t formed by the hand of man at all, and it’s listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Thomas Jefferson once owned it. George Washington is said to have surveyed its location as a young lad of 17—though he was fully commissioned as a surveyor with a…

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‘Virginia Arcadia’ at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

March 4, 2021
American ArtArts & CultureFine Arts & CraftsmanshipLife & TraditionNatural BridgeVirginia
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What’s 215 feet high, 90 feet long, and has been admired in great art and literature for centuries—from Thomas Jefferson’s “Notes on the State of Virginia” to Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” to Frederic Edwin Church’s landscape paintings? Here’s another hint: Jefferson bought it, along with 157 acres of land, from King George III of England for…

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