The 453-foot Alderson Bridge on the Greenbrier River in Alderson, West Virginia, is one of the longest land-filled concrete bridges ever built in the Mountain State. Its elegant arched design was the work of Frank Duff McEnteer, of the Clarksburg Concrete & Steel Bridge Company, an innovator in the use of steel-reinforced concrete.
The 21-foot-wide bridge was built in 1914 to accommodate automobile and pedestrian traffic. A new bridge downstream opened in 1977, and the Alderson Bridge was thereafter closed to automobiles, though it remains open for pedestrian use.
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