U.S. Route 1 Nottoway River Bridge, U.S. Route 1 spanning Nottoway River, McKenney, Dinwiddie County, Virginia
Summary
Significance: The Route 1 Nottoway River Bridge is an example of a short-span concrete through-arch highway bridge of the extremely rare tied-arch type. The bridge was part of the final construction project completing the realignment and concrete paving of Route 1 from Washington, D.C., through Virginia to Raleigh, North Carolina, an important event in national and state transportation history.
Survey number: HAER VA-120
Building/structure dates: 1927 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Glidden, William P
Hagedoin Constuction Company
Vergara, transmitter
Tucher, Rob, photographer
Casella, Richard M, historian
Pendleton, Philip E, historian
Location
McKenney, 36.98682, -77.72305
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html