Sunday Drive - Upper Goose Creek Valley, Bedford County, Va.

ONLY thing that I can think of is the "slash" of boulder/rocks on the BRP above UGCV; dunno, if it ABOVE the Smyrna, Va. "area". Some of it MAY have been "natural" with "cuts" made in the building of the Blue Ridge Parkway, BEFORE reaching Bear Wallow Gap... I have to review my BUILDING THE BLUE RIDGE book. There is a picture of "Buck" W.T. Wright on his donkey & dog, Tippy near-by. "Buck" has an umbrella & bag of "chestnuts"... going into Buchanan, Va. I have seen two "pics" of "Buck" with his umbrella; if it was closed & down... "Treasure" may be "open"; if it was open & up... "Treasure" was CLOSED, COVERED, & PROTECTED... what one "old-timer" (CSA History "nut") told me. MORE later.
Found my book, BUILDING THE BLUE RIDGE by Karen J. Hall & Friends of the BRP, Inc. "Pic" of "Buck" W.T. Wright on his donkey, Tippy near-by. Umbrella is down, & his "bag" of chestnuts is too smooth to be chestnuts... dunno.
 

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MAY have to go look at the Blue Ridge Parkway ARCHIVES... dunno.
 

Was it in the BEALE PAPERS PAMPHLET...? ANOTHER "source" stated that the KEELBOAT was the SYNIA.

You are correct the Keelboat was called the Synia. Here is a handdrawn picture of the keelboat Synia

https://screenshots.firefox.com/rYAPiDZHWFMxBd0Y/babel.hathitrust.org Synia.webp
 

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