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Burke's Garden, the valley the Vanderbilts wanted
1748
Burke's Garden, Tazewell County, Virginia
Ser Amantio di Nicolao at English Wikipedia · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A collapsed limestone dome left a near-perfect bowl ringed by mountains, farmland at three thousand feet reached by one road in and the same road out. George Vanderbilt sent agents to buy it for his estate in the 1880s and the farmers would not sell, so he built Biltmore in North Carolina instead. Locals call it God's Thumbprint and still run cattle in the bottom of it.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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