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Cartersville Bridge is a historic bridge located near
Cartersville Cartersville is a city in Bartow County, Georgia, United States; it is located within the northwest edge of the Atlanta metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 23,187. Cartersville is the county seat of Bartow Cou ...
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Cumberland County, Virginia Cumberland County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,675. Its county seat is Cumberland. History Cumberland County was established in 1749 from Goochland County. ...
. The original bridge was constructed in 1822, and its five stone piers of rough cut ashlar and rubble and two stone abutments remain. Atop them is a superstructure constructed in 1883-84 of heavy timber members with cast-iron connections arranged to form a truss configuration based on the
Pratt truss A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements, usually forming triangular units. The connected elements (typically straight) may be stressed from tension, compression, or ...
. The bridge is composed of six spans with an end-to-end length of . an
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/ref> The bridge was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1972.


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List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Virginia __NOTOC__ This is a list of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in the US state of Virginia. Bridges See also *List of tunnels documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Virginia References External ...
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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 physic ...


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* Historic American Engineering Record in Virginia Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Bridges completed in 1822 Buildings and structures in Cumberland County, Virginia Buildings and structures in Goochland County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Cumberland County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Goochland County, Virginia 1822 establishments in Virginia Pratt truss bridges in the United States Wooden bridges in Virginia {{Virginia-bridge-struct-stub