Located on the ET&V in western Washington County, the Limestone Creek bridge currently consists of mostly modern components, but at least two masonry elements of an earlier--and presumably the original--bridge survive:  a stone pier and a stone abutment.

A free-standing pier of stone masonry construction survives beneath (but unattached to) a span of the modern bridge.  As the stone pier is somewhat shorter in height than the adjacent modern concrete piers, it seems likely that the original bridge occupied a lower elevation nearer the creek's surface.

A stone masonry abutment at one end of the Limestone Creek bridge complex may represent another surviving element of the original supporting structure of the Civil War era.

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Last update:  June 16, 2000