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Curry Creek Bridge, Spanning Curry Creek at State Route 15, Jefferson

Curry Creek Bridge, Spanning Curry Creek at State Route 15, Jefferson, Jackson County, GA. Surveyed as HAER GA,79-JEF,6-, with a 182-word written history.

From the record

“Curry Creek Bridge represents the solid concrete arch bridge type.”

Written record, HAER GA,79-JEF,6- survey. Machine-read text.

Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER GA,79-JEF,6- · the record runs 182 words · one of 26 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Significance

94 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER GA,79-JEF,6-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

Curry Creek Bridge represents the solid concrete arch bridge type. One of forty-six concrete arch bridges recorded in the state of Georgia and one of thirty-seven identified as a solid concrete arch, it is the only such bridge recorded in Jackson County. This bridge does not possess a bridge plate. No infornation has been found concerning the history of the bri.dge with the exception of the construction date. According to Ms. Ann A. Jarrett of the Jackson County Historical Society, the bridge was built in to replace a covered bridge at the same location.

In context

Jefferson, Georgia The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Jackson County, Georgia 39 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report as the survey filed it.

Also surveyed in Jefferson

6 records

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

SheetStructure SurveyReport
Etheridge-Stanton HouseHABS GA,79-JEF,5-116 words
Presbyterian ChurchHABS GA,79-JEF,3-115 words
Pendergrass StoreHABS GA,79-JEF,2-113 words
Shields-Ethridge FarmHABS GA-243236 words
Bell-Maddox HouseHABS GA,79-JEF,1-no text held
Harrison HotelHABS GA,79-JEF,4-no text held

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER GA,79-JEF,6-. 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.