Off to see another battlefield and state park. This time it was Staunton River Battlefield. This park has 2 visitors centers and we found the one at Randolph first. It was closed. We looked around the rebuilt train station and read many of the placards about the battle and fortifications. The map showed the Staunton River bridge to be close to the other visitors center so we decided to drive rather than walk. Hummmm no flag on the flag pole. Not a good sign. This visitors center was also closed so we drove further down the road to the fort and bridge area. This covered railroad bridge was the last to be burned so says the sign. It was rebuilt as an iron bridge in 1902. The tracks and trains are things of a bygone era. We marveled at the remains of the earthworks of the fort. We took a few pictures which will be posted later. We returned to the Randolph Station visitors center to find that it was still closed. I talked to the postmistriss and she said that the center was open on weekends and if staff were present for other work they would open it for visitors.
We retraced our route heading back to camp. We stopped in Keysville for lunch and to fuel up for our return home tomorrow. Afer we got back to camp we took a swim in the lake followed by a short nap before supper.
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Tomorrow we head for home so we packed up the things we don't need this evening.
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