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The picturesque stone-arched Broad Run Bridge was destroyed by tropical storm Agnes in 1972. The storm, however, spared the accompanying stone tollhouse, possibly the state’s only extant bridge tollhouse of the period. The Broad Run Bridge and Tollhouse were part of the Leesburg Turnpike system incorporated in 1809 to connect Leesburg with Alexandria. Construction of the project went slowly; the bridge over Broad Run in Loudoun County was not completed until 1820. Tolls ceased to be collected by the Civil War, and the bridge was abandoned in 1949 for a larger one to accommodate modern State Route 7 immediately parallel. At the west end of the ruined bridge, of which only the abutments now remain, the tollhouse currently serves as a private residence.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
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Programs
DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
