Pratt Truss Bridge - Deer Park, TX, USA
Posted by: 
ggmorton
N 29° 41.782 W 095° 08.221
15R E 293240 N 3287051
An old bridge that has been moved.
Waymark Code: WMV44
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/13/2006
Views: 26
A pin connected truss bridge characteristic of the popular style that once dotted rural Texas, this bridge is the last one in Texas built by the Clinton Bridge and Iron Company of Iowa. Originally opened in 1891 on the Leon River in Coryell County in what later became Mother Neff State Park, the bridge was moved 6 miles in the late 1940s or early 1950s to County Road 322. By 1993 the bridge could no longer support modern road traffic. Texas Department of Transportation officials, in a historic preservation agreement with the Texas Historical Commission, painstakingly transported it more than 150 miles to this site.
It is now located on a golf course in Deer Park, TX.
Type of move: Region to Region
Building Status: Private
How it was moved: Not listed
Original Location: Not listed
Related Website: Not listed
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