HIGH BRIDGE:

"The End of Our Fifteen Months Labor"

Featuring the photographs of Willis Vail

The story of building the Norfolk & Western viaduct near Farmville, Virginia

This book was published by the Friends of High Bridge Trail State Park honoring the 100th anniversary of the completion of High Bridge.

It features historical images created by Willis Vail, Resident Engineer on the construction project in 1913-1914.

Learn about the people, equipment, and methods used to build historic High Bridge.

View 77 images produced from Vail's original glass negatives.

Read captions taken from Vail's own descriptions.

See a reproduction of the September 1914 Engineering News.

Edited and annotated by Bob Flippen, Education Specialist at High Bridge Trail State Park, and Richard McClintock, PhD., Director of Publications, retired, Hampden-Sydney College.

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