Claudius Crozet
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Claude "Claudius" Crozet was a soldier, educator, and civil engineer.
Claudius Crozet
The North Entrance to the Blue Ridge tunnel
Crozet's grave on the campus of the Virginia Military Institute, in Lexington, Virginia
The Blue Ridge Railroad was incorporated by the Commonwealth of Virginia in March 1849 to provide a state-financed crossing of the Blue Ridge Mountains for the Virginia Central Railroad, which it beca
Claudius Crozet
…owner John T. Cocke in Albemarle County, Virginia. In 1839, Crozet surveyed the Blue Ridge Mountains and determined that the best way to allow the Blue Ridge Railroad, an extension of the Virginia Central Railroad, to cross the mountain would be through a series of four tunnels (from east to west: Greenwood Tunnel…
Greenwood Tunnel constructed by the Blue Ridge Railroad