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Photographer: Larry Gertner
Taken: September 23, 2022
Caption: The Goose Creek Bridge
Additional Description: Constructed between 1802 and 1810, this 212-foot-long stone bridge on the Ashby’s Gap Turnpike spans Goose Creek. By 1820 a tollhouse here collected three cents for a horse and rider, six cents for a cart, seven for a wagon, and twelve for a carriage. The bridge carried traffic until 1957, when present-day Route 50 opened. The Fauquier-Loudoun Garden Club cared for the bridge until 2017, when the Civil War Trust and NOVA Parks partnered as stewards. It is one of the oldest bridges in Virginia and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (Ancillary wayside text)
Submitted: June 13, 2023, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p730222
File Size: 5.728 Megabytes

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