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Williams Road Bridge, Spanning Sugar Creek Middle Branch, Chapmanville, Venango County, PA
Summary
Significance: Williams Road Bridge is a unique vernacular example of a late-nineteenth century pin-connected Pratt through truss adapted for re-use as a county bridge in the late twentieth century. It is of engineering interest for its rare patented Phoenix columns, manufactured by the Phoenix Bridge Company of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1006
Survey number: HAER PA-626
Building/structure dates: 1911-1912 Initial Construction
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Phoenix Bridge Company
Smith, James F
Flickner, William R
Read, Emery C
Read, Clyde M
Shorts, Frank
Williams, Samuel
Pratt, Caleb
Pratt, Thomas
Phoenix Iron Company
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, sponsor
Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, sponsor
Location
Chapmanville, 41.38966, -79.82967
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
