Alcovy Road Bridge, Spanning Alcovy River, Covington

Alcovy Road Bridge, Spanning Alcovy River, Covington, Newton County, GA. Surveyed as HAER GA,109-COVI,4-, with a 231-word written history.

From the record

“The Alcovy Road Bridge is composed of two steel bolt connected Warren pony trusses with verticals and one pin-connected Pratt through truss.”
Written record, HAER GA,109-COVI,4- survey. Machine-read text.

Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER GA,109-COVI,4- · the record runs 231 words · one of 8 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Significance

89 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER GA,109-COVI,4-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

The Alcovy Road Bridge is composed of two steel bolt connected Warren pony trusses with verticals and one pin-connected Pratt through truss. The overall length of the bridge is 225 feet. The bridge is 12 feet in width and has a timber deck. This bridge is one of 73 Pratt trusses recorded in Georgia and one of 41 trusses identified as a Pratt through truss. It is one of four such bridges recorded in Newton County and the only bridge in Newton County composed of more than one truss.

Written history

48 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER GA,109-COVI,4-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

This documentation was undertaken in in accordance with the Memorandum of Agreement with the Federal Highway Administration, as a mitigative measure prior to demolition. Inventoried by: Jayne H. Maxwell Georgia Department of Transportation August Edited and Transmitted by: Paul Hawke Historian Southeast Region National Park Service Atlanta, Georgia

In context

Covington, Georgia	The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Newton County, Georgia	57 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record	The original filed report as the survey filed it.

Also surveyed in Covington

4 records

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

Structure	Survey	Report
Carr Hill	HABS GA,109-COVI,2-	282 words
Spense-Harris House	HABS GA,109-COVI,3-	177 words
Downs House	HABS GA,109-COVI,1-	169 words
Salem Camp Ground	HABS GA,109-COVI.V,1-	149 words

Provenance

Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER GA,109-COVI,4-. 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.