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The former a fixed bridge, the latter a swing bridge, they were both removed in late 2010 after the construction of the new bridge. The Marsh Island Connector is a short spur bridge connecting the Marsh Island community to the new bridge. The spur joins the main bridge at a T-intersection over the water, and is a rare example of a three-way bridge.
Blackford Bridge: 1889 2010-06-24 Lebanon vicinity: Russell: Bob White Covered Bridge: 1820, 1821 1973-05-22 Woolwine: Patrick: Burr arch truss: Bowstring Truss Bridge (Ironto, Virginia) 1878 2013-01-02 Ironto
Virginia DOT Bridge No. 6023: Extant Pratt truss: 1902 1994 SR 646: Norfolk Southern Railway: Nokesville: Prince William: VA-110: Virginia DOT Bridge No. 6051: Extant Pratt truss: 1889 1994 SR 673 (Featherbottom Road) Catoctin Creek: Waterford: Loudoun
Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia (24 P) Pages in category "Bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia" This category contains only the following page.
The bridge was originally constructed around 1853. It was rebuilt or modified in 1866, 1870, 1886, 1899, 1920, 1934, and 1957 to accommodate ever-increasing rail traffic and heavier loads. The original bridge was built by the South Side Railroad during the construction of its line between Petersburg and Lynchburg, and later maintained by the ...
The original bridge was constructed in 1822, and its five stone piers of rough cut ashlar and rubble and two stone abutments remain. Atop them is a superstructure constructed in 1883-84 of heavy timber members with cast-iron connections arranged to form a truss configuration based on the Pratt truss .
The Library of Virginia has described the Hornbook as the "definitive, handy reference guide to Virginia's history and culture." [1] [3] The first edition of the book was published in 1949 by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, Division of History and Archaeology, with subsequent editions in 1965, 1983, and 1994. [2]
In 2000, the name of the bridge was changed to the Curtis Holt Sr. Bridge. [5] The renaming of the bridge was among several such renamings cited as the impetus for a failed 2004 Virginia Assembly bill to restrict such actions in the Commonwealth. [6] Metal bridge plate on the south end of the 1933 Fifth Street Viaduct