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Escalante River Bridge, Spanning Escalante River at State Route 12, 9.5 miles East of Escalante, Escalante, Garfield County, UT
Summary
Significance: The Escalante River Bridge, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1940 under the supervision of Albert DeLong, Jr. and Daniel N. Covington, represents a unique multiple span concrete slab bridge. It is the only known bridge in Utah which was built to allow floodwaters to flow over its deck and is the last one-lane bridge still extant on the Utah State Highway system. The completion of the bridge and road provided the first all-weather road connecting the town of Boulder to other parts of Utah and ended one of the last pack mule postal services in the United States.
Survey number: HAER UT-80
Building/structure dates: 1940 Initial Construction
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Sagebrush Archaeological Consultants, contractor
Wegman-French, Lysa, transmitter
Polk, Michael R, photographer
Polk, Michael R, historian
Location
Escalante, 37.77027, -111.60212
Source
Library of Congress
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
