Sunken Road path (Fredericksburg, Virginia)

 place with historical importance, interesting place

www.nps.gov/frsp/sunken.htm

This narrow street once carried traffic between Fredericksburg and Richmond, 55 miles to the south. Known as the Telegraph Road, generations of wagons gradually wore the highway surface into the ground lending it a sunken appearance. The citizens who built the stone retaining walls to keep the ground from collapsing into the roadway never imagined that years later their work would provide ready-made shelter for a large army. The ground rises gently from the parking lot of the visitor center to the Sunken Road. This upslope begins almost one-half mile behind terminating here at the steep base of Marye's Heights. General Lee could not have designed a better position to defend against frontal assaults.

(Years ago, you could drive on Sunken Road from Hanover Street to Lafayette Blvd)