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Wolf Creek Bridge (Rocky Gap, Virginia)

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
10001114

Designated VLR
  
September 30, 2010

Opened
  
1912

Width
  
4.88 m

Architecture firm
  
Phoenix Bridge Company

Built
  
c. 1912

VLR #
  
010-0072

Closed
  
1987

Total length
  
63 m

Bridge type
  
Pratt truss bridge

Added to NRHP
  
7 January 2011

Wolf Creek Bridge (Rocky Gap, Virginia)

Location
  
Old SR 61 - Wolf Creek Rd., near Rocky Gap, Virginia

Wolf Creek Bridge is a historic metal Pratt truss railroad bridge located near Rocky Gap, Bland County, Virginia. It was built about 1912, by the Phoenix Bridge Company of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, for the New River, Holston and Western Railroad. It was converted for use as a road bridge in 1946. It measures 206 feet long and 16 feet wide. The bridge was closed in 1987, and became a pedestrian bridge and the focal point of a county recreational park.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

References

Wolf Creek Bridge (Rocky Gap, Virginia) Wikipedia