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Stones Mill Bridge
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Photo taken by Timothy and Joann Phillips in July 2018
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)
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Description
Despite the tacky-looking streetlamps leading up to and added to the bridge (I guess the town had money budgeted that needed to be spent to include so many lights!) this piece of history will live on thanks to the town of Wytheville. There is also the historic (National Register) Stones or Reed Mill just upstream, although this mill property is in private hands.
Facts
- Overview
- Truss bridge over Reed Creek on South Church Street
- Location
- Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia
- Status
- Intact but closed to all traffic
- Future prospects
- The town of Wytheville has received donations from landowners and grants from VDOT to rehabilitate this bridge for pedestrian use on a town trail with a town park.
- History
- Built in 1881, this is the oldest documented bridge in VDOT's Bristol District
- Builder
- - Pittsburgh Bridge Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Design
- This bridge consists of 2 spans, one a Pratt through truss and the other, only 2 foot shorter at 70 feet, a Pratt pony truss. The substructure is beautiful coursed limestone ashlar.
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 72.0 ft.
Total length: 146.7 ft.
Deck width: 12.9 ft.
- Also called
- Reed Creek Bridge
Reed Creek Mill Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.93490, -81.07387 (decimal degrees)
36°56'06" N, 81°04'26" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/493421/4087653 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Wytheville
- Inventory number
- BH 79532 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 31, 2018: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Pin-connected"
- August 11, 2018: New Street View added by Timothy and Joann Phillips
- November 24, 2017: Added by Clark Vance
You would need to check with the town about swimming there.
Beautiful bridge that I'm glad to see preserved.