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Hawthorne Street Bridge

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Early 20th century. Hawthorne St. at CSX railroad tracks
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)
  • (Virginia Department of Historic Resources)
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)

This metal single-truss Pratt vehicular bridge, of a type common during its era but rarely surviving, carries Hawthorne Street over the C&O railroad tracks. The bridge was manufactured by the Phoenix Iron Company of Philadelphia.

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Anne Carter Lee

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