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description

Summary

Significance: The Bridgeport Swing Span Railroad Bridge embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period and method of construction. Its method of construction (pin-connected) is rare for a swing bridge.

Survey number: HAER AL-8

Building/structure dates: 1890- 1892 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1944- 1945 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1957 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1971 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1972- 1974 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: after 1980 Demolished

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date_range

Date

1969 - 1980
person

Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Louisville Bridge & Iron Company
Nashville,Chattanooga, & St. Louis Railway
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
Howard, Needles, Tammer, & Bergendoff
Nashville Bridge Company
Clement, Dan, transmitter
Hale, Conrad W, historian
place

Location

Bridgeport (Ala.) ,  34.94758, -85.71442
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Source

Library of Congress
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Link

http://www.loc.gov/
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