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Lenox Bridge, Spanning Obion River, Rural Road S8025, Lenox, Dyer County, TN

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Lenox Bridge, Spanning Obion River, Rural Road S8025, Lenox, Dyer County, TN

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Significance: Believed to be the sole surviving hand-operated, swing span, pony Pratt through truss bridge within Tennessee. The bridge has retained its integrity of engineering design representative of transportation routes within western Tennessee during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The swing span also serves as a significant example of a method of construction used during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1162
Survey number: HAER TN-16
Building/structure dates: 1917 Initial Construction

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1969 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Vincennes Bridge Company
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