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Oldest Metal Bridge in Virginia

Elliston, VA

Built in 1878, this metal truss bridge carried traffic until 1971 before being preserved at the northbound Ironto Safety Rest Area on Interstate 81. It has been restored as a pedestrian bridge, turning a highway rest stop into an unexpectedly good piece of surviving nineteenth-century transportation history.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Roadside America

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