quasi

I grew up in Fredericksburg. It was called 'Balanced Rock'. The area was never a park it was on private property owned by a quarry. In highschool we used go there several times a week at night stare at the city lights and drink few beers. It was great place to take a date. It was blown up while I was still a senior in high school so that was 1986 not 1989 as was mentioned earlier, there are even references to the event in my yearbook. Some friends of mine and I were up there the same night it was dynamited, we found out the next day it had been blown up and being that it was dark and late we wondered if the charges were already set and we did not see them or if the individuals that set them were waiting for us to leave.
Considering that the property was owned by a quarry, quarries have access to explosives, if the area was made into a park they could not quarry into the area where the rock was, if anyone falls the quarry could be liable, and the investigation was almost nothing... its a common belief that the owners blasted the rock. Somewhat understandable but still sad.

I'm in Fredericksburg pretty often and end up driving the highway that goes by there pretty often as well. I still get depressed about it when I go by because it was big part of my teen years.