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Area
  
less than one acre

Built by
  
Phoenix Bridge Co.

Built
  
1887 (1887)

NRHP Reference #
  
75002015

Phoenix Bridge

Location
  
Ball Park Road (685) Over Craig Creek, 2.6 miles northwest of Eagle Rock, .8 mile northwest of confluence of Patterson Creek and Craig Creek, near Eagle Rock, Virginia

Architectural style
  
Trapezoidal Whipple Truss

Phoenix Bridge is a historic metal Trapezoidal Whipple truss bridge located near Eagle Rock, Botetourt County, Virginia. It was built in 1887, by the Phoenix Bridge Company of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. It consists of rolled wrought-iron "Phoenix post" compression members and round and rectangular tension rods with pinned joints. It includes a cast panel embellished with anthemions and garlands, small urnlike finials, and quatrefoils and trefoils.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

References

Phoenix Bridge Wikipedia


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