Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1901 — Kentucky’s Natural Bridge. [ARTICLE]

Kentucky’s Natural Bridge.

Kentucky’s natural bridge, in Powell County, is perhaps the most unique freak of nature that the State possesses in its line. It is a giant wall of rock connecting two Immense cliffs, rising some 1200 feet above the valley below, in the middle of which there is an opening about 150 by fifty feet in width. The approach to this opening on either side is almost impossible, and ean only be accomplished by strained physical exercise of the most pronounced character. The country on the far side of the bridge has never been traversed, and there Is, in fact, but one way of reaching the elevation. Once under the bridge of rock there is a steep decline, and to reach the top of the bridge a narrow crevice in the rock has to be traversed. Only an ordinary person can squeeze through the place. The bridge is visited each year by thousands of sightseers.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.