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Dowhait's Bridge, Bartow County Road 343, spanning Etowah River, Cartersville

Dowhait's Bridge, Bartow County Road 343, spanning Etowah River, Cartersville, Bartow County, GA. Surveyed as HAER GA,8-CARVI.V,1-, with a 211-word written history.

From the record

“Dowhait's Bridge is a 264-foot steel, pin-connected Pratt through truss, composed of two spans.”

Written record, HAER GA,8-CARVI.V,1- survey. Machine-read text.

Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER GA,8-CARVI.V,1- · the record runs 211 words · one of 3 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Significance

112 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER GA,8-CARVI.V,1-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

Dowhait's Bridge is a 264-foot steel, pin-connected Pratt through truss, composed of two spans. The bridge is one of 38 Pratt through trusses recorded in the Georgia Historic Bridge Survey. It is one of 30 that is pin-connected and one of only four Pratt through trusses in the State that is composed of two spans. Project Information. This documentation project was undertaken in as a mitigative measure by the Georgia Department of Transportation, in accordance with a memorandum of agreement to document the structure prior to demolition. Inventoried by: jayne H. Maxwell Georgia Department of Transportation June 8, Edited and Transmitted by; Paul Hawke Southeast Region National Park Service Atlanta, Georgia 9

In context

Cartersville, Georgia The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Bartow County, Georgia 75 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report as the survey filed it.

Also surveyed in Cartersville

1 record

The federal surveyors worked through Cartersville building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER GA,8-CARVI.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.