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Haralson County Bridge, County Road 189, spanning Tallapoosa River, Tallapoosa

Haralson County Bridge, County Road 189, spanning Tallapoosa River, Tallapoosa, Haralson County, GA. Surveyed as HAER GA,72-TALL.V,1-, with a 242-word written history.

From the record

“The Haralson County Bridge is a steel pin connected Pratt-through truss constructed by the Virginia Bridge and Iron Company of Roanoke, Virginia.”

Written record, HAER GA,72-TALL.V,1- survey. Machine-read text.

Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER GA,72-TALL.V,1- · the record runs 242 words · one of 1 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Significance

151 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER GA,72-TALL.V,1-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

The Haralson County Bridge is a steel pin connected Pratt-through truss constructed by the Virginia Bridge and Iron Company of Roanoke, Virginia. The bridge is composed of one Pratt-through truss measuring and two other spans. The total length of the bridge is The width of the bridge is 12' 1".

According to GDOT Maintenance Records, the bridge was built in but this construction date appears contradictory as the builder of the bridge, Virginia Bridge and Iron Company, did not have an office in Atlanta until While it is possible that the bridge may have been built in it is also possible that the bridge was built after Other recorded construction dates for Pratt through trusses in Georgia range from It is one of 35 Pratt-through trusses identified on the Georgia Historic Bridge Inventory and one of two in Haralson County. Transmitted by: Jean P. Yearby, from data compiled by Stephen Goldfarb,

In context

Tallapoosa, Georgia The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Haralson County, Georgia 32 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report as the survey filed it.

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER GA,72-TALL.V,1-. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Text capture. Machine-read from the scanned typescript filed with the survey, so spelling and spacing follow the original page.
  • How this page is made. Documentary passages are quoted from the linked federal record; page labels and counts are clearly marked as site presentation or calculations.