Wire Ford Bridge, Spanning Big Mulberry Creek at Wire Road (CR 67), Pleasant Hill, Crawford County, AR
Summary
Significance: Wire Ford Bridge is a good example of early twentieth century metal truss bridge technology. It is the only surviving multiple-span Pratt truss bridge in the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department historic bridges database.
Survey number: HAER AR-71
Building/structure dates: after. 1920- before. 1929 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1929 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1976 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 2006 Subsequent Work
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through trusses
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transportation
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ford
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mulberry
big mulberry creek
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crawford
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arkansas
history of arkansas
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justine christianson
samuel coddington
historic american engineering record
lakeside bridge and steel company
j c smalley
wrought iron bridge company of ohio
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Lakeside Bridge & Steel Company
Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Ohio
Smalley, J C
Coddington, Samuel
Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department, sponsor
Behrens, Thomas, project manager
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Location
Pleasant Hill
,
35.57628, -94.31542
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
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