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Rock Church Suspension Bridge, Spanning Paluxy River, Tolar, Hood County, TX
Rock Church Suspension Bridge, Spanning Paluxy River, Tolar, Hood County, TX
Rock Church Suspension Bridge, Spanning Paluxy River, Tolar, Hood County, TX
Rock Church Suspension Bridge, Spanning Paluxy River, Tolar, Hood County, TX
Rock Church Suspension Bridge, Spanning Paluxy River, Tolar, Hood County, TX
Rock Church Suspension Bridge, Spanning Paluxy River, Tolar, Hood County, TX
Rock Church Suspension Bridge, Spanning Paluxy River, Tolar, Hood County, TX
Rock Church Suspension Bridge, Spanning Paluxy River, Tolar, Hood County, TX
Rock Church Suspension Bridge, Spanning Paluxy River, Tolar, Hood County, TX
Rock Church Suspension Bridge, Spanning Paluxy River, Tolar, Hood County, TX
Summary
Significance: One of the remaining vernacular suspension bridges in Texas, the Rock Church bridge is an example of a combination cable and stayed truss, an obsolete engineering design.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N536
Survey number: HAER TX-81
Building/structure dates: ca. 1917 Initial Construction
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Tags
bridges
bridge construction
hood county
church
suspension
bridge
rock church suspension bridge
paluxy
paluxy river
tolar
hood
texas
caraway
jennifer chrusciel
peggy hardman
bruce a harms
historic american engineering record
hannah sears
texas department of transportation
texas historical commission
photo
ultra high resolution
high resolution
building
church buildings
library of congress
Date
1917
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Caraway
Chrusciel, Jennifer, field team
Texas Department of TRansportation, sponsor
Texas Historical Commission, sponsor
Sears, Hannah, transmitter
Hardman, Peggy, historian
Harms, Bruce A., photographer
Location
hood county
,
32.38903, -97.92059
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html