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The stone spires that are Natural Chimneys photographed in the snow in Mount Solon on January 29, 2022.
Flat-bottomed 18th-century style batteaux navigate through the rapids on the James River at Hatton’s Ferry about four miles west of Scottsville, Va., during the James River Batteau Festival on June 23, 2021. The boats were five days into their yearly eight day trek down James, traveling from Lynchburg to Richmond.
The Norfolk Southern Arch Railway Bridge located on Route 602 in Page County, Virginia --- built in 1932. Photographs taken on June 9, 2021.
The one-room Moffett's Creek Schoolhouse built in the late 1800s sits on property at the edge of Mt. Hermon Cemetery along Va. 681 in Newport in Augusta County, Va. Even though on the National Register of Historicl Places, the structure is under threat of being torn down in favor of a future new road that would lead into the cemetery. Photo taken on June 6, 2021. (Photo by Mike Tripp)
The Blue Ridge Tunnel was constructed between 1850 and 1858 beneath Rockfish Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains of central Virginia. CSX Transportation generously donated the tunnel to Nelson County in 2007.
"Lone Henge" is artist Mark Cline's 2021 April Fool's Day creation. It was located in a pasture a few miles from the Virginia Horse Center in Lexington, Virginia.
The Frank Padget monument honors a black batteaux man who died saving those who were stranded aboard a canal boat in flood waters on the James River. The monument is located in Glasgow, Virginia.