Stone Bridge (Manassas)

Stone Bridge crosses Bull Run at the eastern entrance of the Manassas National Battlefield Park in Manassas, Virginia. The original bridge, built in 1825,^[1] was destroyed during the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) on July 21, 1861, the first major land battle of the American Civil War. In 1884,^[1] a new bridge, apparently similar to the original design, was built on the site of the old bridge. Modern day U.S. Route 29 crosses Bull Run on a bridge built in the late 1960s downstream of this one.

March 1862 photograph of the ruins of the Stone Bridge after the First Battle of Bull Run.
April 1962 photograph of the late 19th-century bridge built at the location of the original bridge.

Notes

1 2 "Places". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved June 3, 2012.

Coordinates: 38°49′27″N 77°30′13″W / 38.8243°N 77.5037°W / 38.8243; -77.5037

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