The 18th century Rockfish Gap Tavern (on right) was chosen in 1818 as the meeting place for three U.S. presidents: Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, and a bevy of other great minds, to select the location for Virginia’s Central College (University of Virginia). The venerable hostelry was lost to fire in 1903. Courtesy Augusta Co. Historical Society; Frances Scruby Collection Mountain Top Hotel, at Rockfish Gap near the conjunction of Albemarle, Aug…
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