A typical example of Pratt truss construction, the 150-foot-long, single span Catoctin Creek Bridge was once numbered among scores of similar structures, but is now one of the last through-truss metal bridges in northern Virginia. Department of Transportation records state that it was constructed in 1925 by the Variety Iron Works of Cleveland, Ohio. It was originally located on Route 7 spanning Goose Creek in Loudoun County. The Catoctin Creek Bridge was dismantled and moved to its present location near Waterford in Loudoun County around 1932, where it now serves a tree-shaded, unpaved country lane bordered by well-tended estates.

The Catoctin Creek Bridge, one of the longest surviving late-19th-century metal truss bridges in Virginia, was listed at the statewide level of significance in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.  Research has confirmed that the bridge was originally constructed around 1889, after a flood removed an earlier covered bridge. Due to increased traffic on Route 54 (the pre-1934 number for Route 7), close calls on the one-lane bridge, and steep grades leading down to it, the state replaced it with a two-span, steel Warren pony truss bridge in 1932. The one-lane bridge was moved to its current site, carrying Featherbed Lane/Route 673 across Catoctin Creek. The bridge, now renamed in honor of local preservationist John G. Lewis, was rehabilitated in the early 2020s. A nomination update was approved by the National Register in 2024.
[NRHP Approved: 2/12/2024]