- Collection:
- Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
- Title:
- Mill Creek Bridge, State Highway 31/U.S. 441 spanning Mill Creek, Pridgen, Coffee County, GA
- Creator:
- Historic American Engineering Record
- Contributor to Resource:
- Georgia State Highway Bridge Department,
Calloway, Deborah, transmitter
Lawrence, Sandy, historian
Richardson, Donnie, photographer - Date of Original:
- 1933/9999
- Subject:
- Pridgen (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
vehicular bridges - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Coffee County, Pridgen, 31.69685, -82.92292
- Medium:
- photographs
field notes - Type:
- Still Image
Text - Description:
- Photo(s): 6 | Data Page(s): 6 | Photo Caption Page(s): 1
Significance: The 8-span steel stringer bridge composed of four, 2-span continuous spans of 20' is a complete example of an important early state highway department design that became a standard (No. 3840) in 1931. It continued to be used in an updated fashion through the 1950s, although the timber substructure was replaced by concrete or steel. The 1935 bridge has standard design concrete railings, brush curbs, timber pile bents, and a concrete deck. Timber pile bents are the most common early type of substructure utilized for this design because of its economy. The bridge is a significant example first-generation bridge technology in the state, a technology that is disappearing because of the limitations of the substructure. Fewer than twenty pre-1936 examples of the structure have survived to the present day.
Survey number: HAER GA-141
Building/structure dates: 1935 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 2004 Demolished - Local Identifier:
- HAER GA-141
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/ga0916/
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
- Original Collection:
- Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
- Holding Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
-
