Broad Run Bridge and Tollhouse

Broad Run Bridge and Toll House sit where Routes 7 and 28 meet Broad Run, near Sterling in Loudoun County. The stone bridge has two arches carried on a central pier and heavy abutments, with conical buttressing at the arches and a low parapet along the roadway. The stone toll house stands at the western end on the south side. It began as a one-story, three-bay building and was later enlarged with three wings, though the old walls remain largely intact. Both were part of the Leesburg Turnpike, chartered in 1809. A stone reputedly dated 1820 suggests the likely construction date, replacing at least three earlier wooden bridges that washed away. The stone bridge carried traffic until 1949, and the road ceased to be a toll road at the start of the Civil War. The property was listed as one of several surviving stone bridges in Virginia and probably the only such bridge paired with a toll house. The toll house is now a private residence. A June 1972 flood damaged the causeway.