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Walton County Road 162 Bridge, Spanning Alcovy River at County Road 162, Social Circle

Walton County Road 162 Bridge, Spanning Alcovy River at County Road 162, Social Circle, Walton County, GA. Surveyed as HAER GA,149-SOCCI.V,1-, with a 286-word written history.

From the record

“GDOT Bridge is representative of the Warren pony truss with verticals bridge.”

Written record, HAER GA,149-SOCCI.V,1- survey. Machine-read text.

Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER GA,149-SOCCI.V,1- · the record runs 286 words · one of 5 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Significance

68 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER GA,149-SOCCI.V,1-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

GDOT Bridge is representative of the Warren pony truss with verticals bridge. It is one of thirty-seven Warren truss bridges recorded in the state and one oE twenty-nine identified as a Warren pony truss with verticals. It is one of two such bridges in Walton County. Based on the context of the Georgia Historic Bridge Survey, this structure fits into the era of "historic" bridge building in Georgia.

Written history

116 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER GA,149-SOCCI.V,1-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

Susan Shepherd Prosser, April, WAI2D0N COUNTY EQAD 162 BRIDGE (GOT Bridge #297/00762A^00164N) HAER No. GA.-72 (Page 2) GDOT Bridge is a one span Warren pony truss with verticals measuring 72 feet by feet. It is one of thirty-seven Warren truss bridges recorded in the Georgia Historic Bridge Survey. It is one of twenty-nine identified as a Warren pony truss with verticals and one of two such bridges recorded in Walton County. The bridge does not possess a bridge plate. No information concerning the history of the bridge has been found. According to GDOT Maintenance Records, the bridge was constructed in Sources GDOT Maintenance Records Georgia Department of Transportation Historic Bridge Georgia Department of Natural Resources Survey,

In context

Social Circle, Georgia The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Walton County, Georgia 42 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report as the survey filed it.

Also surveyed in Walton County

4 records

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

SheetStructure SurveyReport
Upshaw-Briscoe StoreHABS GA,149-BET,2-449 words
James Berrien Upshaw HomeplaceHABS GA,149-BET,1-262 words
Davis HouseHABS GA,149-MONRO,2-260 words
Birscoe-Selman HouseHABS GA,149-MONRO,1-240 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER GA,149-SOCCI.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.