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Powder Springs Bridge, Spanning Flat Creek at Dale Road, Powder Springs, Grainger County, TN

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Powder Springs Bridge, Spanning Flat Creek at Dale Road, Powder Springs, Grainger County, TN

description

Summary

Significance: The bridge is a representative example of the Pratt half-hip truss and of the work of the Converse Bridge Company of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Survey number: HAER TN-24
Building/structure dates: 1909 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1987 Demolished

date_range

Date

1969 - 1980

person

Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator

Converse Bridge Company

Converse, William H

Mississippi Valley Steel Company

Sisken Steel and Supply Company

Carver, Martha, historian

Hornal, George, photographer

place

Location

Powder Springs, 36.24855, -83.66196

Google Map of 36.24855, -83.6619563

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Source

Library of Congress

link

Link

http://www.loc.gov/

copyright

Copyright info

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