CR 36 - Flaggs Crossing Road, Van Metre Ford Stone Bridge

Martinsburg, WV, US / WV

059-10052749

US/WV

Location Description

This three-span, stone-arch bridge was built in 1832 by Silas Harry under contract with the Berkeley County Court. It was constructed in order to eliminate the fording of Opequon Creek when traveling on the Warm Springs Road. The bridge is 165 feet long and is built of uncoursed ashlar limestone masonry. Each of the three segmental arches, delineated with smooth-surfaced, but irregular width, voussoirs, springs from low, round-ended piers that have cone-shaped buttresses carried into the solid masonry spandrels. The center arch spans 32 feet while each of the end arches spans 29.6 feet. Parapet walls appear to have had cement capping added at some later time. Low pylons, also capped with cement, termite the parapet walls at the approaches to the bridge. In plan, the structure is wider at the ends (22 feet) then at the center (16 feet). The stone work in the piers and buttresses as well as in the voussoirs is especially precise. Mortar erosion over the years has revealed closely fit joints.

Location Category

Bridges

General

Roads / Highways

General

Architecture Style

1800s / Civil War

Address

City

Martinsburg

Zip/Postal Code

State/County

WV

Area

County Route 36

Country

US

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