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Old Mill Bridge

Elmore County, Alabama, and Tallapoosa County, Alabama

Photos 

"sunsurfr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunsurfr/3068607384/"

By sunsurfr (flickr photo)

View this photo at farm4.static.flickr.com

BH Photo #193126

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Through truss bridge over Tallapoosa River on Old Railroad/Private St in Tallassee
Location
Tallassee, Elmore County, Alabama, and Tallapoosa County, Alabama
Status
Closed to all traffic
History
Built 1920
Design
Pratt through truss with two pony truss approach spans
Also called
Tallassee Mills Railroad Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+32.53300, -85.88823   (decimal degrees)
32°31'59" N, 85°53'18" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/604403/3600062 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Tallassee
Inventory number
BH 47926 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Alabama (971)
Built 1920 (1,015)
Built during 1920s (9,925)
Closed (2,665)
County line crossing (533)
Elmore County, Alabama (17)
Have street view (26,950)
 Pony truss (16,186)
Pratt through truss (5,393)
Pratt truss (9,300)
Tallapoosa County, Alabama (17)
Tallassee, Alabama (2)
Through truss (15,075)
Truss (32,799)

Update Log 

  • October 8, 2011: New photos from Ben Tate
  • March 1, 2011: New Street View added by J.P.
  • February 27, 2011: New photos from C Hanchey
  • February 26, 2011: Updated by C Hanchey: Bridge was never a state or city bridge. It was privately owned by the Tallassee Mills
  • February 2, 2011: Added by J.P.

Sources 

  • J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
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Comments 

Old Mill Bridge
Posted January 25, 2012, by Ben Tate (benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

Here's a link to an old photo of this bridge:

http://www.civilwaralbum.com/misc17/2010a/tallassee18lg.jpg

Old Mill Bridge
Posted February 2, 2011, by J.P.

thanks, corrected that.

Old Mill Bridge
Posted February 2, 2011, by Nathan Holth (form3 [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

Great find!

FYI, the photo used here isn't shown on Flickr as being in the public domain. Its available for reuse under what is called "Creative Commons" which means you can post the photo here on BridgeHunter, but you have to follow the rules that the Creative Commons license says. In the case of this photo located here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunsurfr/3068607384/ it is "CC BY-NC-SA 2.0" (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ ). For the purposes of BridgeHunter, it means you need to attribute it. Flickr is rather unclear what proper attribution is, so I usually list the "real name" or if no real name is given, I list the user name, then I list the license type and then post a link to the page the photo is on. So for the photo on this page, I would list the Caption as "sunsurfr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunsurfr/3068607384/"

Hope this helps! I just don't want anyone on BridgeHunter to get in trouble.