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Crozet Tunnel
Credit: Flickr
Original Author: Rick Stillings
Created: July 10, 2016
Medium: Digital photograph

Crozet Tunnel

This modern photograph shows an arched entrance to the Crozet Tunnel, one of four single-track railroad tunnels built through the Blue Ridge Mountains in the mid-nineteenth century.

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  • Lynchburg during the Civil War
  • Claudius Crozet (1789–1864)

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