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Gordon County Road No. 24 Bridge, Spanning New Town Creek at County Road 24, New Town, Gordon County, GA

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Gordon County Road No. 24 Bridge, Spanning New Town Creek at County Road 24, New Town, Gordon County, GA

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Significance: The bridge is representative of the rivet-connected Pratt pony truss and is the only such bridge recorded in Gordon County. Based on the context of the Georgia Historic Bridge Survey (GHBS), the structure fits into the era of "historic" bridge building in Georgia and is a good example of the kind of smaller metal-truss bridges built in the northern part of the state during the historic period.
Survey number: HAER GA-69
Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction

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1920
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Sprinkle, Brad
Maxwell, Jayne H
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