The Manchester Bridge - Wheeling, WV

Towards the south end of what is Rock Point Road, near what used to be the location of the Reymann Brewing Company, was a vital link to what was considered the back way to Wheeling.

Traveling south on Rock Point Road, you would have crossed the Manchester Bridge over Big Wheeling Creek on to 17th street in Wheeling.  According to an atlas from 1873 this section of Wheeling would have been called Manchester or New Manchester, possibly relating to a one time property owner.  

The 1873 atlas shows a bridge crossing Big Wheeling Creek in the general vicinity, and even a search on Google maps today shows a bridge, but all that remains is the stand stone abutment that once carried traffic across the bridge.  As the stand stone abutment, this area around the south end of Rock Point Road is virtually abandoned.  Some of the brick buildings that remain date back to the Reymann Brewery.  

• what remains
• standing on what's left on the bridge. 
• no entry

Click on the above photograph and scroll over the photograph to find a
"note" as the where the bridge used to be.