Pratt Truss Bridge - Deer Park, TX, USA
Posted by: 
ggmorton
N 29° 41.782 W 095° 08.221
15R E 293240 N 3287051
A truss bridge that is now used on a golf course.
Waymark Code: WM1K4X
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/24/2007
Views: 43
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.
Parking Coordinates:: Not Listed
Date Built: Not listed
Length of Span: Not listed
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Visit Instructions:
Log your find with a picture of the bridge with yourself or your GPS in the foreground. This shot does not have to be taken "on" the bridge. The shot should show the "truss" structure of the bridge as well.