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Taft: Norris Bridge Southside
The landscape around Taft is low-lying and shaped by the broad tidal Rappahannock River, which has shaped both settlement patterns and local life. Virginia Route 3 crosses the water here on the Robert O. Norris Bridge, opened in 1957 and named for a former state highway commissioner. The bridge is an important link between Virginia’s Northern Neck and the Middle Peninsula, joining the communities around White Stone and Topping. This is a working estuary landscape of wooded shores, small waterfront settlements and boating waters leading east toward Chesapeake Bay. The Rappahannock has long supported fishing, oystering and travel, while the bridge concentrates road traffic at one of its wide lower-river crossings.
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