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Title: The scenic attractions and summer resorts along the railways of the Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia Air Line: the Shenandoah Velley RR., the Norfolk & Western RR., and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia RR
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia Air Line Shenandoah Valley Railroad Norfolk and Western Railroad Company East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railway Company
Subjects: Summer resorts
Publisher: New York, Aldine press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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t from the station platform he wouldhave need for all the gorgeous tints thathis palette could hold, or his brushesspread. Leaving Waynesboro behind, thescenery lost no charm of lovelinessfrom its symphonies of green andgold, pale violet and white silver—allwas charming. GEORGIA SUMMER RESORTS 23 AT LOCH LAIRD STATION, a branch of the Richmond and Alle-ghany road leads out to Lexington, theHeidelberg of Virginia. Here, amidsuch natural beauty as only the ValleyMountains can boast, is a famous inlandcity, noted for its healthfulness, its cul-tivated society, its colleges, and as theresting place of those Southern heroes,Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. has a span of 90 feet; the thickness ofits floor rock is 50 feet; the height fromthe creek bed to arch is 215 feet, andfrom directly under to the little cedar treethat clings to the parapet is 265 feet. Asplendid hotel and lordly grounds aregrateful hand-maids to this cycle-wornveteran. BUCHANAN was once the western terminus of the
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NATURAL BRIDGE STATION landed us within reach of that peerlessphenomena of the land, one of theworlds wonders, the Natural Bridge of Virginia.This strange engineering of nature needsno description here ; it has been a themefor historians, poets, and orators sincethe eyes of pale faces first beheld it.It is a bona fide bridge, and in useevery day for the wood-cart of themountaineer, as well as for the dragand bays of hotel livery. The bridge NATURAL BRIDGE OFVIRGINIA. James River & Kanawha Canal, butsince the era of mule power and tinhorns has given place to steam andsteel rails, it has accommodated itself toall the modern graces of railroad life.The main line of the R. & A. Railroadconnects, through this place, the She-nandoah Valley road with the country onthe Ohio River. We enter the Roanoke Valley amidscenes of surpassing beauty. The settingsun purples the tops of the mountainsand throws its slanting rays over therich field and pasture lands; the twi- 24 VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE

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