Catoctin Creek Bridge
The Catoctin Creek Bridge crosses over Catoctin Creek in Loudoun County, Virginia. It currently carries Virginia Route 673, also known as Featherbed Lane. Originally located at a crossing of nearby Goose Creek, carrying the Leesburg Turnpike, it was later Virginia State Route 7, but was relocated in 1932 to its present location. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 24, 1974. Description The bridge is a nine-panel iron Pratt truss bridge, fabricated by the Variety Iron Works of Cleveland, Ohio and first erected around 1889. It is a single span of , with a roadway width of . The deck is made of timbers. It is one of the longest 19th-century metal truss bridges remaining in Virginia. See also *List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Virginia *List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia This is a list of bridges and tunnels on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. state of Vi ...
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Waterford, Virginia
Waterford is an unincorporated village and census-designated place (CDP) in the Catoctin Valley of Loudoun County, Virginia, located along Catoctin Creek. Waterford is northwest of Washington, D.C., and northwest of Leesburg. The entire village and surrounding countryside is a National Historic Landmark District, noted for its well-preserved 18th and 19th-century character. In the 1810 United States Census, the population center of the United States was recorded as being just northwest of the village. History Founding Waterford was established around 1733 by Amos Janney, a Quaker from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Janney purchased on the south fork of Catoctin Creek and established a grist mill and saw mill in the area in the 1740s. Due to the success of the mills, the settlement became known as "Janney's Mill." The town grew quickly as a center of commerce for growers of grain. Growth Amos Janney died in 1747, leaving his estate to his sixteen-year-old son, Mahlon, who re ...
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List Of Bridges On The National Register Of Historic Places In Virginia
This is a list of bridges and tunnels on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. state of Virginia. References {{NRHP bridges Virginia Bridges Bridges A bridge is a structure built to Span (engineering), span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, whic ...

Historic American Engineering Record In Virginia
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