Natural Bridge Outside of Clinton, Arkansas Pictures of the Day

 

Earlier this month Terry and I had a working vacation. You have seen some of the pictures from Arnett, OK and Baxter Springs, KS as well as Branson, MO. These pictures are from the travel across Arkansas North to South on our way to Louisiana.

Just outside Clinton, Arkansas we saw a sign that said "Natural Bridge". The sign indicated that it was located one mile off the road. Now Terry and I love the chance to see things like this.  Pictured above is the cabin where the host is who tells a little background of the place. He said a large family lived in that cabin years ago.

 

Some of the trees were just beginning to turn.

This is the front of the cabin in the first picture. Terry is on his way to look at something or else, he is reading a sign. (I don't remember.)

 

I always have to take pictures of covered wagons to keep in my mind the scale of how the pioneers moved from place to place.

 

Terry wants to make a well that looks like this for our garden. He is getting a closer look.

 

This is a sassafras tree. (The one with a sign on it...) I had thought that sassafras was a root or plant or something. I guess I am not too old to learn something that possibly everyone else already knows. 

 

I also learned from my friend, Kimberly Thompson, our hostess in Louisiana, that file (pronounced filly)  for gumbo is made from crushed and powdered leaves of the sassafras tree. This is another thing I did not know.

 

They reconstructed a still on the sight.

 

Look at the moss on the roof!

This was also a house where an entire family lived. We are so spoiled today!

Another view of this house.

 

 

This is the natural bridge. It is bigger than it looks here. Dirt eroded from under it and above it to reveal a natural stone bridge.

There is a little cave back in there.

This sphere is a natural stone. The host of the sight told us that they are called "pearls of the mountains". There are some in MO also. Google natural round rocks and there are pictures of other rocks like this. He said some of them are up to 12' diameter. We found this very interesting.