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Goshen Pass
Goshen Pass
	Maury River at Goshen Pass
Elevation	1,350 ft (411 m)
Traversed by	SR 39
Location	Rockbridge County, Virginia,; United States
Range	Ridge and Valley Appalachians
Coordinates	37°55′49″N 79°27′19″W / 37.93028°N 79.45528°W

Goshen Pass is a water gap, or gorge, in the Little North Mountain, formed by the passage of the Maury River, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Lexington in Rockbridge County, Virginia. State Route 39 traverses the pass along the banks of the Maury River.

Background

Goshen Pass is the site of the Matthew Fontaine Maury memorial overlooking the Maury river. After Maury's death, his body was taken from the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond. Along the way the coach stopped at the Goshen pass, per Maury's request, to pick some of his favorite flowers, rhododendrons, and mountain-ivy before continuing onward to Richmond. Subsequently, a memorial to him was placed there, consisting of a vertical stone monument, showing Maury's face and an inscription a poem written by Mrs. Margaret Junkin Preston as cited on the webpage. In addition, high above the river below, a huge anchor and chain were placed, honoring Maury's naval service.^[1]

Matthew Fontaine Maury is buried between Virginian presidents John Tyler and James Monroe.^[2]^[3]

Gallery

The Maury River cuts through the Appalachians, west of Wilson Springs, between Hogback Mountain and Jump Mountain
Maury Memorial at Goshen Pass overlooking the Maury River
View to northeast from overlook
View to southwest from overlook
Maury River
State Route 39 near west end of the pass

References

^ Archived photo and poem by William Maury Morris II
^ Goshen Pass State Nature Preserve protectedplanet.net
^ Preserve webpage

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[1] Archived photo and poem by William Maury Morris II

[2] Goshen Pass State Nature Preserve protectedplanet.net

[3] Preserve webpage

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v t e Gaps of the Appalachian Mountains
Water gaps	Cumberland Narrows Brocks Gap Delaware Water Gap Gaps of the Allegheny Blair Gap Kittanning Gap Goshen Pass Hillsboro Gap James River Gorge Lehigh Gap Loysburg Gap Mechanicsburg Gap Moccasin Gap The Narrows Potomac Water Gap Reeds Gap Schuylkill Gap Swatara Gap Thoroughfare Gap
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Passes	Appalachian Gap Balsam Gap Brock Gap Buck Creek Gap Bull Gap Carter Notch Cowee Gap Craven Gap Crawford Notch Deals Gap Dixville Notch Evans Notch Franconia Notch Gillespie Gap Grafton Notch Grandmother Gap Granville Notch Hazen's Notch Hobart Gap Kinsman Notch Lincoln Gap Mahoosuc Notch Middlebury Gap Monterey Pass Newfound Gap Pinkham Notch Sherburne Pass Skinners Gap Smugglers Notch Soco Gap Stony Clove Notch Zealand Notch
Artificial cuts	Clarke's Gap

Background

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See also

References