Photos
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Historic photo Photo provided by the Arkansas Highway & Transportation Department |
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Close-up of main span |
Facts
- Overview
- Lost suspension bridge over Black River on US 62 at Powhatan
- Location
- Lawrence County, Arkansas
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Made obsolete by the Black Rock Bridge in 1949 and finally removed in 1951
- Design
- Wire suspension
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.08165, -91.11577 (decimal degrees)
36°04'54" N, 91°06'57" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/669655/3994648 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Black Rock
- Inventory number
- BH 10413 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Comments
Fantastic childhood memories, going from RiverView to Walnut Ridge, over this bridge. There was a fee to cross it. (also if you took the ferry) But to me a beautiful expanse of water as we "rumbled and shook" crossing over the one lane bridge. Mom, scared, saying "watch out", Daddy laughing as he drove along. I enjoyed it along with Daddy.
My Mom went across the bridge in a rumble seat....she is now 74..that must have been a scarey ride !
The four main span concrete pillars are still standing on sight.
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I lived in Paragould, AR, in my teenage years and often with my family we'd travel U.S. 63 between home and Missouri. We never traveled over this bridge; too scary looking, according to my father, and besides, there was a toll. The state operated a free ferry a short distance upriver and we'd utilize that crossing. Whoooeeee! These photos justify my father's fear.