Bunker Hill Bridge, Spanning Lyle Creek, bypassed section of Island Ford Road, Claremont, Catawba County, NC

Significance: The Bunker Hill Bridge is the only surviving historic covered bridge in North Carolina and the only surviving Haupt truss covered bridge in the United States. Though it never reached the mainstream of bridge building, the Haupt truss is of engineering interest as an innovative example of mid-nineteenth century bridge engineering, as well as for its associations with Gen. Herman Haupt, a prominent nineteenth century civil engineer who did pioneering work in the structural analysis of bridges.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N979

Survey number: HAER NC-46

Building/structure dates: 1894-1895 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1921 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1978 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1994 Subsequent Work

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000446

covered bridges transportation haupt trusses vehicular bridges claremont bunker bridge bunker hill bridge lyle lyle creek section ford island ford road catawba catawba county north carolina raenelle bolick abernathy aimee anderson arnold m graton associates roland k bolick j s bridges catawba county historical association justine christianson dcf engineering federal highway administration herman haupt richard l hefner historic american engineering record j e hodges christopher marston north carolina department of transportation andrew loretz ramsour ithiel town photo historic american landscapes survey historic american buildings survey library of congress architectural diagrams national register of historic places

1933 - 1970

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