Built 1873 (1873) NRHP Reference # 09000617 Opened 1873 | Architect Thomas K. Menifee VLR # 129-5023 Added to NRHP 12 August 2009 | |
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Area Less than 1 acre (0.40 ha) Similar Blue Ridge Mountains, Fort Lewis Mountain, Salem Civic Center, Kiwanis Field, Salem Football Stadium | ||
Valley Railroad Bridge is a historic limestone arch bridge located over Gish Branch at Salem, Virginia. It was built in 1873, and is a single-span, barrel-vaulted stone bridge structure. The bridge structure is a semi-circular vaulted tunnel through a man-made earthen embankment. The bridge is an architecturally significant remnant of an unrealized transportation scheme dating to the Reconstruction Era following the American Civil War. The Valley Railroad was never completed to Salem, therefore the bridge, constructed in 1873, never fulfilled its intended purpose.
The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
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