The Goff Farm Stone Bridge is a historic bridge in eastern
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Fayetteville () is the second-largest city in Arkansas, the county seat of Washington County, and the biggest city in Northwest Arkansas. The city is on the outskirts of the Boston Mountains, deep within the Ozarks. Known as Washington until ...
. It carries Goff Farm Road (County Road 170) across an unnamed creek just north of Stonebridge Meadows Golf Club. The bridge is a single-span stone arch with a span of and a total bridge length of . The bridge's builder is unknown, and its design suggests it was built circa 1860, when the road it carries was a major east–west thoroughfare connecting Fayetteville and
Huntsville
Huntsville is a city in Madison County, Limestone County, and Morgan County, Alabama, United States. It is the county seat of Madison County. Located in the Appalachian region of northern Alabama, Huntsville is the most populous city in th ...
. It is believed to be the oldest masonry bridge in the state, and is one of the state's small number of surviving 19th-century stone bridges.
The bridge was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
See also
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List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Arkansas
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Arkansas
References
External links
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Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Bridges completed in 1860
Transportation in Washington County, Arkansas
Historic American Engineering Record in Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Fayetteville, Arkansas
Stone arch bridges in the United States
1860 establishments in Arkansas
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