Legends of Vigin Bluff

Before I tell you about the folklore I am going to tell you some history about that area that I have been told and read. Cape Fair is the closest town that is nearby and it is the oldest settlement in Stone county. In the 1800's, what is called the James Rive valley was given to the Delaware Indians by the government to be called their own, they had got pushed out of the east. Other tribes had settled this area too like the Cherokee that my ancestry was a part of. Eventually they kept getting pushed west as settlers came from the east. During the Civil War the first gunpowder mill west of the Mississippi was built on Flat creek close by. Cape fair was the county seat until the 1850's and then was moved to Galena. In the 1880's the settlement was flooded and moved to higher grown. The old school house built in the 1880's has been preserved and stands today. Around 1960 the lake flooded all the rich river soil, the cabins and caves, forcing people to higher grown. Now the awesome view from the top of the hills looks over Table Rock lake that people come from miles away to visit. Virgin Bluff is roughly a 1,000 feet long and 300 foot tall in which the James River ran under it. In the 1970's my grandfather and uncle bought the land on the bluff and cleared out some timber. They sold 30 acres to a builder that built a few houses and then they traded 70 acres to a development company out of Springfield for stock in the company. Well the company went belly up with only leaving them with a lot of worthless paper bonds that they still have.
      So the Legend of Virgin Bluff is as following.  When DeSoto and his men reached the area before the white man, they made friend's with the Indians,  the Chiefs daughter fell in love with one of the men. The Chief refusing to let his only daughter marry outside the tribe, she jumped off the bluff. They say some strange things happen there like being able to hear the maiden sing,  some say its just the wind blowing through the rock.
      Come back tomorrow and I will tell you another story of the Legend of Virgin Bluff.
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