| Maize Quest at Bridgemont Farm |
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Each year you will be a-“maized” with the maze designs in the cornfields! You will choose the way as you discover games and clues. Maize-o-Vision secret decoders help you navigate the puzzle. Maize Quest is a great event for scouts, schools, youth groups and corporate parties. Maize Quest is located at Bridgemont Farms, the best place in the Shenandoah Valley for fall entertainment. Bring your family for a weekend to remember. Learn and have fun at Maize Quest! Other Attractions include Soybean maze, Pedal go-karts, Rope maze, the family favorite 60 FT BARN SLIDE, hayrides, and more. |
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| Meem's Bottom Covered Bridge |
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Tourists from miles around pay a visit to one of the best-known covered bridges in Virginia, a 204-foot single-span Burr arch truss known as Meem's Bottom in Shenandoah County. The bridge site takes its name from the Meem family that owned the Strathmore estate west of the Shenandoah River. This long span over the North Fork of the river carried traffic for more than 80 years before being burned by vandals on Halloween 1976. After salvaging the original timbers, the bridge was reconstructed and eventually under girded with steel beams and concrete piers. Succeeding at least two other bridges, the Meme’s Bottom Bridge was built in 1894 from materials cut and quarried nearby for the massive arch supports and stone abutments, which extended 10 feet below the riverbed. Records show that one bridge was burned in 1862 as Stonewall Jackson went up the valley ahead of Union General John C. Fremont, prior to the battles of Harrisonburg, Cross Keys and Port Republic. Another was washed away in a flood in 1870. |
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