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“Deep Cut” is where engineers blasted through the rock formations to make way for the railroad nearly 200 years ago.
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Overgrowth is shown here on the ancient rocks at the top of the valley hills.
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These pools are left over from the quarries at Blackhand Gorge.
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This is the scene along a paved path heading toward the railroad tracks. The river through the gorge is out of view but on our right.
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The trees pictured here are growing in the rock walls.
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The Blackhand Rock is a massive wall of sandstone that once had the dark hand shaped petroglyph on it.
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The Blackhand Gorge state nature preserve is just 12 miles east of Newark.
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