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Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, Little Hunting Creek Bridge, 8.6 Miles South of I-95, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virginia

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Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, Little Hunting Creek Bridge, 8.6 Miles South of I-95, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virginia

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Summary

Significance: This parkway bridge is significant because it typifies the style of bridges that were designed for this new type of roadway. This bridge was designed to harmonize with the landscape by incorporating the natural shape of the arch, facing the bridge with native stone, and using careful attention regarding the plantings and landscape surrounding the bridge.
Survey number: HAER VA-42-D
Building/structure dates: 1929- 1932 Initial Construction

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Clarke, Gilmore D
Budge, E J
DeWaters, F M
McNary, J V
Bureau of Public Roads
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Nolin, Elizabeth M, historian
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Location

fairfax county38.72931, -77.10739
Google Map of 38.72931380000001, -77.1073859
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Library of Congress
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