Gordon County Road No. 24 Bridge, Spanning New Town Creek at County Road 24, New Town

Gordon County Road No. 24 Bridge, Spanning New Town Creek at County Road 24, New Town, Gordon County, GA. Surveyed as HAER GA,65-NEWTO.V,1-, with a 316-word written history.

From the record

“The bridge is representa- tive of the rivet-connected Pratt pony truss and is the only such bridge recorded in Gordon County, Based on the context of the Georgia Historic Bridge Survey the structure fits into the era of "historic" bridge building in Georgia and is a good example of the kind of smaller metal-truss bridges built in the northern part of the state during the historic period.”
Written record, HAER GA,65-NEWTO.V,1- survey. Machine-read text.

Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER GA,65-NEWTO.V,1- · the record runs 316 words · one of 5 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Significance

67 words

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

The bridge is representa- tive of the rivet-connected Pratt pony truss and is the only such bridge recorded in Gordon County, Based on the context of the Georgia Historic Bridge Survey the structure fits into the era of "historic" bridge building in Georgia and is a good example of the kind of smaller metal-truss bridges built in the northern part of the state during the historic period.

Written history

168 words

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

Jayne H. Maxwell, June, HAER NO.GA-69 Page 2 1S a Gordon county road #24 Bridge spanning New'Town Creek rivet-connected Pratt pony truss. It is one of seventy-three Pratt truss bridges recorded in the Georgia Historic Bridge Survey and one of thirty-five trusses identified as a Pratt pony truss, twelve of which are Pratt half-hip pony trusses. The historical context of this bridge is unknown. The Georgia Department of Transportation was established in Prior to the establishment of GDOT the responsibility of roads and bridges in Georgia rested with the counties. It has been found from researchinga number of bridges on the Georgia Historic Bridge Survey that records of construction of bridges 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 construction, 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. 7027A-0399A \

In context

New Town, 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 Gordon County

4 records

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

Structure	Survey	Report
Georgia DOT Bridge No. 129/00228/00505E	HAER GA-145	398 words
Lutens Bridge	HAER GA,65-CASH.V,1-	327 words
Gordon County Road 220 Bridge	HAER GA,65-FAIR.V,1-	234 words
Moss-Kelly House	HABS GA,65-RANG.V,1-	34 words

Provenance

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