Yadkin River Bridge

Contributors:

Ithiel Town, engineer

Variant Name(s):

Beards Bridges Bridge

Dates:

1818-1819

Location:

Rowan County

Street Address:

Yadkin River near U. S. 29, NC

Status:

No longer standing

Type:

Transportation

Note:

This was the first of Town’s bridges in North Carolina. After serving for about half a century, the Yadkin River Bridge fell into disrepair and disappeared by 1881. Its stone piers were reused in 1899 to carry a steel toll bridge (now gone) on the same site. The five stone piers survive.