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Photographer: J.J. Prats Postcard Collection
Taken: Circa 1907/1915
Caption: Natural Tunnel, Scott County, Va.—(10)
Additional Description: This divided back unused undated colored postcard was “printed and published by J. P. Bell Co., Lynchburg, Va.” Framed by the Little Tunnel, it shows the south portal before the pavilion seen in the previous postcard was built. It has this caption on the back: “Natural Tunnel on the Virginia Southwestern Railway. Scott County, is one of the greatest of Virginia natural wonders. From out of a semi-cylindrical canyon whose perpendicular walls of blue and gray limestone seem to reach to the very skies, Natural Tunnel cleaves its way 900 feet through a mountain to the world beyond; its arches 75 feet high and 80 broad swallowing up railroad, telegraph poles and mountain stream, still have space for more.”
Submitted: October 3, 2014, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p287873
File Size: 3.245 Megabytes

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