Tucked away in the woods of this small, but popular, family-friendly park is a hidden passage that few people know of and few manage to find. This Civil War-era culvert served as a hiding place for Confederates prior to raids on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad, which once passed directly over the culvert. The railroad, which ran between Gordonsville in central Virginia provided a strategic mechanism for the movement of troops and supplies for the Union army. Numerous accounts exist of Confederate forces attempting to disrupt the railroad line during the…
