This is the old 19E highway bridge that ran right next to and lower than the wood deck covered bridge at Hampton. We're on the Hampton side of the Doe River. This bridge was built around 1915, about the same time the highway bridge at Valley Creek was built. It also crossed the Doe. Here, the highway came across the bridge and when it got to this side of the river it turned toward us and ran underneath the end of the railroad bridge, then followed the river as it looped around the end of a ridge then crossed the river again then tied in with present day 19E as it comes into Hampton. The railroad had simply gone straight through the ridge using tunnel 1, but the highway, being more flexible, chose to follow the river instead. These bridges were interesting in how they were built. The bridge itself, not the supports, were hollow with formed concrete walls. They were then filled with dirt and rock, and then either concrete was poured over the dirt or asphalt was put over it. Probably the concrete. In later years, they had to put stabilizing bars with caps on the ends through the bridges to reinforce the sides and hold them together to keep them from spreading. This one still stands, but the one at Valley Creek was torn out in the early nineties to make room for the widening of 19E from Elizabethton to Hampton.