Gordon County Road 220 Bridge, Spanning Pine Log Creek on County Road 220, Fairmount

Gordon County Road 220 Bridge, Spanning Pine Log Creek on County Road 220, Fairmount, Gordon County, GA. Surveyed as HAER GA,65-FAIR.V,1-, with a 234-word written history.

From the record

“The Gorden County Road 220 Bridge represents the rivet-connected Warren pony truss with verticals type.”
Written record, HAER GA,65-FAIR.V,1- survey. Machine-read text.

Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER GA,65-FAIR.V,1- · the record runs 234 words · one of 5 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Significance

160 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER GA,65-FAIR.V,1-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

The Gorden County Road 220 Bridge represents the rivet-connected Warren pony truss with verticals type. It is one of four such bridges recorded in Gordon County. Based on the context of the Georgia Historic Bridge Survey the bridge is a good example of the kind of smaller metal-truss bridges built in the northern part of the state. The historical context of this bridge is unknown. The Georgia Department of Transportation was established in Prior to that time, individual counties took resposibility for roads and bridges. It has been found from researching a number of bridges on the Georgia Historic Bridge Survey that records of construction on county rural systems and to a large degree on state systems were rarely kept.
Therefore, unless the bridge possesses a bridge plate identifying the date of construct.!.on, the bridge company, or the county officers at the time of construction, it is virtually impossible to associate the bridge with historical events, periods, activities, or people.

In context

Fairmount, Georgia	The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Gordon County, Georgia	72 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record	The original filed report as the survey filed it.

Also surveyed in Fairmount

1 record

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

Sheet	Structure	Survey	Report
	Georgia DOT Bridge No. 129/00228/00505E	HAER GA-145	398 words

Provenance

Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER GA,65-FAIR.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.