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“The Royal Institution, Albemarle Street: the Laboratory,” James Basire (after William Tite), 1818
Engraving.
Rockfish Gap, Virginia, June 2018.
Seen from the edge of Greenwood-Afton Rural Historic District. (The gap’s 110 miles are the lowest passage through the Blue Ridge Mountains.) Thomas Jefferson met with other officials at the nearby Rockfish Tavern in 1818 to plan the University of Virginia.