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Morning Sun Productions Presents
Crozet: The Claudius Crozet Story
Soldier • Scholar • Educator • Engineer
With a grant from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Producer: R.L Barrett, Crozet, Virginia,
Editor: Stephen Hanes, Fairfield , Virginia
Narrator: Rev. John Chafee, Afton, Virginia
With special thanks to: The Albemarle County Historical Society
Morning Sun Productions
Crozet: The Claudius Crozet Story
Claudius Crozet was a decorated artillery officer
under Napoleon and a pioneer in the development of
railroads in America
He was head of the engineering department at the U.S.
Military Academy at West Point, a principal founder of the
Virginia Military Institute, president of Jefferson College at
Convent Louisiana, chief engineer of Virginia and
Louisiana, principal of Richmond Academy, and a math book author. He was best known as the builder of the "impossible" Blue Ridge Tunnel at Rockfish Gap, in Afton, Virginia, which was, at the the time, the longest tunnel, by far, in the world .
Come with us as we reveal even more about this great engineer whom some called a genius.
Robert L. "Bob" Barrett
Has studied and lectured on the life of Claudius Crozet
for 30 years. He is married to the former Ruth Anderson. They have a daughter,
Sharon Kennedy, and two grandsons,
Justin and Brandon.
Bob supervised systems assembly and industrial engineering at Stromberg Carlson (Comdial) in Charlottesville, Virginia, for sixteen years. He also taught vocational electricity at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Technical Education Center for fifteen years and held teaching positions at UVA and Piedmont Community College. Now retired, he has joined his interests in video and history with his documentary on the life of Colonel Claudius Crozet.
Jacket Cover designed by Michael Erkel & Associates
