I-81, Ironto Rest Area, Ironto, Virginia. County/parish: Montgomery.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 02, 2013. NRIS 12001136.
1 contributing structure.Also known as:
Bowstring Truss Bridge, also known as the Roaring Run Bowstring Truss Bridge and King Tubular Arch Truss Bridge, is a historic bowstring truss bridge located at the Ironto Rest Area near Ironto, Montgomery County, Virginia. It was built by the King Bridge Company in 1878, and is a single-span, four-panel tubular arch pony truss. It measures 55 feet (17 m) long, 12 feet (3.7 m) wide, and 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) high with an open roadway width of approximately 9 feet 6 inches (2.90 m). The bridge was partially disassembled and moved from its original location to a second site during the 1930s, where it remained until moved to its current location in 1977.
The bridge was documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in 1983 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681995