![]() Mizzy and Tunkey fled to avoid being separated but were eventually chased to the edge of a large steep cliff. According to legend, their master, Chardley, liked Mizzy so, in a bid to have her for himself, he arranged for her lover, Tunkey, to be sold to another estate. Lovers' Leap is named after two enslaved lovers from the 18th century, Mizzy and Tunkey. The south coast of Jamaica at Saint Elizabeth Parish has a Lovers' Leap 1,700 feet (520 m) above the Caribbean Sea. Later, her family found out that her lover was alive and well. The local legend is that a young woman believed her lover had been killed in the Napoleonic wars, so she threw herself off the top of the promontory. Maiden Rock, Wisconsin, is one site for the Winona legend, though other locations include Winona Falls in Pennsylvania, Camden County, Missouri, and Cameron Park in Waco, Texas.ĭovedale in the Peak District in the United Kingdom has a limestone promontory named Lovers' Leap reached by a set of steps built by Italian prisoners of war captured in World War II. Mark Twain in Life on the Mississippi writes: "There are fifty Lover's Leaps along the Mississippi from whose summit disappointed Indian girls have jumped." Princess Winona is one such legend, in which the daughter of a Dakota chief leaps to her death rather than marry a suitor she does not love. The city of Cumberland and the surrounding states of Pennsylvania and West Virginia may be seen from this point. It is 1,652 feet (504 m) above sea level and made up of oddly squared projections of rock from its top all the way down to the National Road (U.S. Wills Mountain has a Lovers' Leap overlooking Cumberland Narrows on the west side of Cumberland, Maryland. In this version the lover is saved by the blowing wind which sends him back into the arms of his sweetheart. īlowing Rock Mountain, outside Blowing Rock, North Carolina, has a similar legend of a young lover leaping from the cliff and instead of plunging to his death, is saved. It involved a Chickasaw warrior and a Cherokee maiden. The most notable Native American legend can be found in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. The promontory was named "Lovers' Leap" by settlers, and has acquired a legend involving two young Native Americans from different tribes. The Lovers' Leap at Hawks Nest State Park in the town of Ansted, West Virginia, along the historic Midland Trail, has a drop of 585 feet (178 m) from a high cliff overlooking the New River Gorge. Lovers' Leap, Dovedale, Peak District, England, United Kingdom.Lovers' Leap, Blaise castle estate, Bristol, England, United Kingdom.Lovers' Rock (la Peña de los Enamorados), Antequera, Andalusia, Spain.Lovers Leap, Otago Peninsula, Dunedin, New Zealand.Lovers' Leap / Diarmuid and Gráinne's Rock, Loop Head, County Clare, Ireland.Lovers' Leap Rock, Dargle Valley, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland.Green Valley View aka Suicide Point, Kodaikanal, India.Fonte dos Amores, Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil.Whitetop Mountain, Washington County, VirginiaĬouple approaching boat after they swim in lover's leap spot, Trincomalee.Lovers' Leap Hawks Nest State Park, Fayette, West Virginia.Lovers' Leap, Turn Point, Stuart Island, Washington.Natural Tunnel State Park, Duffield, Virginia.Lovers' Leap in Patrick County, Virginia, about 10 miles (16 km) west of Stuart on U.S.Lover's Leap, in Washington County, Utah.Lovers' Leap, in Cameron Park, Waco, Texas.Lover's Leap Trail, in Custer State Park, Custer, South Dakota.Lover's Leap, located along Oklahoma State Highway 10 and the Illinois River in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. ![]() ![]() Philmont Scout Ranch, outside Cimarron, New Mexico.Lover's Leap, The Palisades, Weehawken, New Jersey.Purgatory Chasm State Reservation, Massachusetts.Lovers' Leap, Natural Bridge State Resort Park, Slade, Kentucky.Lover's Leap, Franklin Creek State Natural Area, Franklin Grove, Illinois.Lover's Leap Pere Marquette State Park, Grafton, Illinois.Two Lovers Point ( Puntan dos Amantes) in Dededo, Guam.Two Lovers Point is a major tourist attraction on Guam ![]()
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