Broad River Highway Bridge, State Route 72, spanning Broad River, Carlton

Broad River Highway Bridge, State Route 72, spanning Broad River, Carlton, Madison County, GA. Surveyed as HAER GA,98-CARL.V,1-, with a 268-word written history.

From the record

“The Broad River Highway Bridge is an open spandrel concrete arch bridge built in The bridge is composed of three open spandrel concrete arches measuring each and two other spans.”
Written record, HAER GA,98-CARL.V,1- survey. Machine-read text.

Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER GA,98-CARL.V,1- · the record runs 268 words · one of 2 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Significance

181 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER GA,98-CARL.V,1-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

The Broad River Highway Bridge is an open spandrel concrete arch bridge built in The bridge is composed of three open spandrel concrete arches measuring each and two other spans. The total length of the bridge is and the width is The site of the present 72 bridge has long served as a river crossing between Madison and Elbert counties. It was the location of or quite near the location of Martin's Ferry as early as and that of Deadwylen's Ferry as early as The bridge is significant in that it is representative of the open spandrel concrete arch bridge. The bridge is one of ten open spandrel concrete arch bridges identified on the Georgia Historic Bridge Inventory and the only one recorded in Madison County. There is also one recorded open spandrel concrete arch bridge in Elbert County.
(See: Phillips, William, Map of Madison County, Georgia. Georgia State Archives, Atlanta, and Stone, W* A. and E. E. Stone, Map of Madison County, Georgia, State Archives, Surveyor General's Office, Atlanta) Transmitted by; Jean P. Yearby, from data compiled by Stephen Goldfarb,

In context

Carlton, Georgia	The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Madison County, Georgia	21 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record	The original filed report as the survey filed it.

Also surveyed in Madison County

1 record

The federal survey recorded these other structures elsewhere in Madison County. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

Sheet	Structure	Survey	Report
	Watson Mill Bridge	HAER GA-140	5,298 words

Provenance

Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER GA,98-CARL.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.