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Georgia DOT Bridge No. 083/00201/X/00372N, Spanning Lookout Creek on County Road 201, New England

Georgia DOT Bridge No. 083/00201/X/00372N, Spanning Lookout Creek on County Road 201, New England, Dade County, GA. Surveyed as HAER GA-144, with a 268-word written history.

From the record

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

Written record, HAER GA-144 survey. Machine-read text.

Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER GA-144 · the record runs 268 words · one of 2 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Significance

69 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER GA-144. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

GDOT Bridge is representative of the Warren pony truss with verticals bridge. It is one of forty-two Warren truss bridges recorded in the State and one of thirty-three identified as a Warren pony truss with verticals. It is the only such bridge in Dade County. Based on the context of the Georgia Historic Bridge Survey, this structure fits into the era of 11 historic 11 bridge building in Georgia.

Written history

112 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER GA-144. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

Susan Shepherd Prosser, March, GEORGIA DOT BRIDGE No. HAER No. GA-144 (page 2) GDOT Bridge is a three span Warren pony truss with verticals measuring 130 feet by feet. It is one of forty-two Warren truss bridges recorded in the Georgi a Historic Bridge Survey. It is one of thirty-three identified as a Warren pony with verticals and the only such bridge recorded in Dade 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 Survey Georgia Department of Natural Resource 8229A-0450A

In context

New England, Georgia The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Dade County, Georgia 64 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report as the survey filed it.

Also surveyed in Dade County

1 record

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

SheetStructure SurveyReport
County Road 130 BridgeHAER GA,42-RIFA.V,1-349 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER GA-144. 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.