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CARROLLTON VIADUCT

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1829, James Lloyd. Across Gwynn’s Falls

The first stone masonry railroad bridge built in the United States, this 297-foot-long viaduct carried the earliest section of the B&O track across Gwynn’s Falls on the way to Ellicott’s Mills. The finely dressed ashlar stonework includes an arch 80 feet in diameter spanning the water and a smaller arch between two of the buttresses to accommodate a wagon road. Gwynn Falls Trail, accessible from Washington Boulevard, uses the former wagon road right-of-way under the viaduct, which still carries modern rail traffic like its larger counterpart, Thomas Viaduct (CM15)

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie
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WILKENS AVENUE ROW HOUSES
MOUNT CLARE
HOLLINS MARKET
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BALTIMORE AND OHIO TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM (B&O MT. CLARE STATION AND RAILROAD SHOPS)

Citation

Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie, "CARROLLTON VIADUCT", [, Maryland], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MD-01-BC91.

Print Source

Buildings of Maryland, Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022, 206-207.

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