Hawk’s Nest
Once called Marshall’s Pillar for Chief Justice John Marshall, who came here, 1812. U.S. engineers declare the New River Canyon, 585 feet deep, surpasses the famed Royal Gorge. Tunnel for river makes vast water power here.
Marker is on U.S. 60 1.7 miles west of Fox Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
