Linville Creek Bridge, Spanning Linville Creek at State Route 1421, Broadway, Rockingham County, Virginia
Summary
Significance: The Linville Creek Bridge is a rare surviving example of a metal pin-connected bridge truss designed and patented in 1881 by Edwin Thacher. The truss design combines triangular and suspension systems to eliminate defects inherent in the triangular and quadrangular truss systems in common use at the time. Edwin Thacher made significant contributions to metal truss and reinforced concrete bridge design and construction in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Survey number: HAER VA-97
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Location
Broadway (Va.), 38.60720, -78.80821
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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