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TENNESSEE FITNESS SPA AND MEMORIAL WALL
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| Every year we usually spend a week at the Tennessee Fitness Spa exercising and eating healthy food. The spa is located in South Central Tennessee. Located on the grounds of the spa is the beautiful Natural Bridge. This site was used by Native Americans over many periods of history. The Bridge was formed naturally over millions of years and is the only double span natural bridge formation in the world. Also located on the grounds of the spa is an ice cave with a year round temperature of 58 degress. |
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Views of Natural Bridge - Overview at Left - Inside Bridge on Right |
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Water Flowing Under Bridge |
Looking Through Bridge |
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Covered Bridge on Property |
A Place to Rest |
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Some of the Rustic Housing Units |
My Favorite Spot - The Warm Water Indoor Pool |
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The Resident Ducks and Many Flowers Add to the Beauty of the Area |
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THE WALL |
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In October 2007 we decided to drive south along the Natchez Trace Parkway to visit THE WALL that we had heard so much about. It is being built by Tom Hendricks to honor one of his ancestors - an exceptional Native American woman of the Yuchi Tribe. She was still a young girl when she was sent by the U.S. Government to Oklahoma along with the other Native Americans as the government sought to clear the area of all the "Indians" living there, She slipped away from the reservation and returned, alone, and on foot, to her homeland in Northwest Alabama. She later married a white settler and because of her knowledge of the medicinal herbs and other native plants was able to heal many of the people who came to her for help. THE WALL is the largest unmortared wall in the United States, the largest memorial to an "American Indian Woman", and possibly the largest memorial to a woman. The wall contains more than six and a half million pounds of stone and is larger than five football fields. It is located at Threets Crossroads, in Alabama, just off the Natchez Trace Parkway. It is in a wooded area and we found it impossible to get any pictures that displayed the enormity of it. |
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Tom Hendricks Greets Visitors to the Wall |
It is Only Possible to Photograph a Very Small Section of the Wall in Each Picture |
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Prayer Circle |
Top View Shows Width of Wall |
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A Fossil, a Meteorite, and an Inscription Embellish the Wall - Stones are Donated From All Over the World |
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| To Go To The Official Website of the Tennessee Fitness Spa Click on THe Lady |
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| To Learn More About the Indian Girl Click on the Stone Wall Being Built |
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