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Valley Railroad Stone Bridge is a historic stone
arch bridge An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its loads partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at either side. A viaduct ...
spanning Folly Mills Creek near Jolivue,
Augusta County, Virginia Augusta County is a county in the Shenandoah Valley on the western edge of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The second-largest county of Virginia by total area, it completely surrounds the independent cities of Staunton and Waynesboro. Its county ...
. It was built in 1874 by the Valley Railroad, and is a four-span structure with an overall length of and a width of . It is constructed of
granite Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...
and faced in
ashlar Ashlar () is finely dressed (cut, worked) stone, either an individual stone that has been worked until squared, or a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, generally rectangular cuboid, mentioned by Vitruv ...
and features semi-circular arches set on gently splayed piers. It was acquired by the
Virginia Department of Transportation The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is the agency of the state government responsible for transportation in the state of Virginia in the United States. VDOT is headquartered at the Virginia Department of Highways Building in downtown ...
in 1965. It is considered a scenic landmark along
Interstate 81 Interstate 81 (I-81) is a north–south (physically northeast–southwest) Interstate Highway in the eastern part of the United States. Its southern terminus is at I-40 in Dandridge, Tennessee; its northern terminus is on Wellesley Island ...
. an
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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 1974.


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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 a physical obstacle (such a ...
* Valley Railroad Bridge


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* Historic American Engineering Record in Virginia Railroad bridges in Virginia Railroad bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Bridges completed in 1882 Buildings and structures in Augusta County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Augusta County, Virginia Stone arch bridges in the United States 1882 establishments in Virginia {{Virginia-bridge-struct-stub