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This lacy metal-truss bridge, with its distinctive thirty-degree skew, was built by the Groton Bridge Company for the Goshen Land and Improvement Company in 1890 when the Shenandoah Valley was undergoing a real estate and industrial boom. The developers of the town of Goshen in Rockbridge County naively hoped that the community would grow into the “Birmingham of America;” but the boom ended quickly, and the Goshen Land Company Bridge remains one of the company’s few tangible accomplishments. Supported on limestone ashlar abutments and piers, the bridge is composed of a through Pratt truss consisting of two spans with an overall length of 258 feet. Above the portal is an ornate cresting sign proudly listing the officers of the Goshen Company. The bridge was originally built to accommodate trolley tracks as well as a roadway.
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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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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
