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The 41st United States Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan dubbed it the "Eighth Wonder of the World". The South Atlantic and Ohio railroad constructed tracks through the Natural Tunnel in 1893, [5] and the first train passed through the following year. In 1899, the Natural Tunnel was purchased by the Tennessee & Carolina Iron and Steel ...
Sky Meadows State Park: Delaplane: 1,860 acres (7.5 km 2) 1975 Open Smith Mountain Lake State Park: Huddleston: 1,248 acres (5.05 km 2) 1967 Open Southwest Virginia Museum Historical State Park: Big Stone Gap: 1.5 acres (0.0061 km 2) 1943 Open Staunton River State Park: Scottsburg: 2,336 acres (9.45 km 2) 1939 Open Staunton River Battlefield ...
Clinch River State Park is a river-based state park in Tazewell, Russell, Wise, and Scott counties in Southwest Virginia. It was dedicated by Gov. Ralph Northam on 16 June 2021 as the 41st park in the Virginia State Park system. The park preserves some of the most scenic and ecologically diverse parts of the Clinch River.
Shenandoah River Raymond R. "Andy" Guest Jr. State Park, known generally as Shenandoah River State Park, is a state park near the town of Bentonville, Virginia, United States. The park was established in 1994, and covers 1,619 acres (6.55 km 2) along the South Fork Shenandoah River. [1] It was named for Virginia Delegate Andy Guest, long a ...
To further the Natural Heritage Program's mission to conserve and manage sites identified as significant natural areas within the state, The Virginia Natural Area Preserve System was established in 1989. [2] [3] The system's first preserve, North Landing River Natural Area Preserve, was established in 1990. By 2007, the preserve system included ...
Today, the park is known for its fishing opportunities. The park was one of four recreational areas developed by the Virginia Division of Forestry (now the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation) working in conjunction with the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Depression. The central water feature at Holliday Lake is the ...
Occoneechee State Park is a state park near Clarksville, Virginia, located along Buggs Island Lake.Occoneechee State Park is 2,698 acres in size. Its name reflects the Occaneechi Indians, who lived on (and traded from) an island in the Roanoke River near its confluence with the Dan River, which was flooded by the creation of the Kerr Lake reservoir in 1952.
The parks merged in 1976 and became Twin Lakes State Park in 1986. In 1995, Virginia erected a marker to acknowledge his lawsuit's contribution to desegregating the park. [6] The marker reads: Prince Edward State Park for Negroes was established in 1950 one mile west on the site of the former Prince Edward Lake Recreation Area for Negroes.