Natural Bridge of Virginia
Legend says the Monocan Indians called it "The Bridge of God" and worshipped it. Thomas Jefferson was the first American owner, patenting it with 157 acres on July 5, 1774, "for twenty shillings of good and lawful money." Millions of years old, Natural Bridge is considered one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
1948 text, presented as a historical document.
Many of these markers have since been replaced or their texts revised. The marker program and its current texts are maintained by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Virginia Department of Historic Resources ↗
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Marker data: Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, State Historical Markers of Virginia, 6th ed. (1948)
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