Initials on the Wall, Children in the Hall

A young George Washington is said to have carved his initials into Natural Bridge, and a murdered family is said to run the halls of the hotel above it.

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Walk the Cedar Creek Trail toward the Natural Bridge and a state park marker poses a question: fact or fiction? The marker says, according to local legend, that George Washington carved his initials into the stone in the early 1750s. It adds that Washington’s journals do not mention the bridge, and that the leg…