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Rockfish Gap is a low passway across the Blue Ridge at an elevation of 1909. It served buffalo, Indians, and covered wagons. Thomas Jefferson came by stagecoach in 1818 to Rockfish Tavern, where he presided over a prominent group that resolved to locate the University of Virginia "in the salubrious climate of Charlottesville." In 1858, after eight years of ordeal, Claudius Crozet completed a railway tunnel beneath the gap, which remained in use for 84 years.
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