Prior to the building of the Stoney Creek Bridge, the farmers living in Riviera Beach were cut off from Baltimore by the Stoney Creek. Traveling to Baltimore required going all the way around the Creek to Lipton's Corner, now Sun Valley. The first bridge was built in 1914, just after Fort Smallwood Road was created. The bridge allowed visitors from the city to travel to Riviera Beach to enjoy the beach and wide open spaces that the city did not allow. In 1925 the bridge was rebuild as a one-way drawbridge. The continued summer beachcombers increased the traffic flows over the one-way bridge. On Christmas Eve, 1948 the new concrete and steel bridge was opened.
