Stone Bridge (Manassas)

Stone Bridge
April 1962 photograph of the late 19th-century bridge built at the location of the original bridge
Location Across Bull Run near US 29
Coordinates 38°49′27″N 77°30′13″W / 38.82417°N 77.50361°W / 38.82417; -77.50361Coordinates: 38°49′27″N 77°30′13″W / 38.82417°N 77.50361°W / 38.82417; -77.50361
Built 1886 (1886)
Part of Manassas National Battlefield Park (#66000039)
Designated CP October 15, 1966

Stone Bridge crosses Bull Run at the eastern entrance of the Manassas National Battlefield Park in Manassas, Virginia. The original bridge, built in 1825,[1] was destroyed when Confederate forces evacuated Northern Virginia in March, 1862. In 1884,[1] a new bridge, apparently similar to the original design, was built on the site of the old bridge. Modern day U.S. Route 29 crosses Bull Run on a bridge built in the late 1960s downstream of this one.

Bridge in operation
March 1862 photograph of the ruins of the Stone Bridge

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Places". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved June 3, 2012.
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