Midland Trail - The Most Scenic Drives in America: 120 Spectacular Road Trips - page 1021

6. Big Sewell Mountain
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mit of Big Sewell Mountain. The peak, which climbs to 3,170 feet, served as a camp for
Robert E. Lee and his Confederate troops during an 1861 Civil War campaign.
Many other parts of this rumpled region—a strategic link between North and
South—were fought for and occupied during the war. As the drive rolls onward through
rural hamlets, you'll come to Lewisburg, once a Confederate outpost, where some build-
ings still bear the scars of battle. Yet Lewisburg's past goes back even further. One stone
church, complete with the original pews, was erected by settlers in 1796. Several historic
buildings were built in the decades before the Civil War.
7. White Sulphur Springs
A steady supply of spring water, tinged with smelly sulphur and other minerals, has been
drawing health seekers—presidents and politicians among them—to this fashionable re-
treat since the 18th century. At the town's edge, tucked amid forested hills and lush green
pastures, stands the venerable Greenbrier Resort, looking like the White House—only big-
ger—and evoking the elegance of the Old South that typifies this glorious region.