Salkehatchie Bridge, State Route No. 64 spanning Salkehatchie River, Barnwell, Barnwell County, SC

Significance: The Salkehatchie Bridge is one of the earliest extant bridges built under the auspices of the South Carolina State Highway Commission. It is a representative example of a modular type of reinforced concrete bridge adopted by the South Carolina Highway Commission engineers in the early 1920s, for construction of small concrete T-beam bridges.

Survey number: HAER SC-33

Building/structure dates: 1925 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1999 Subsequent Work

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