Facts
- Overview
- Lost through truss bridge over Petit Jean River on Thomas Road west of Magazine
- Location
- Logan County, Arkansas
- Status
- Destroyed by flooding
- History
- Destroyed by flash flood in 1982 and replaced
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.14336, -93.83425 (decimal degrees)
35°08'36" N, 93°50'03" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory number
- BH 10432 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Comments
Need to make a correction on when this bridge was lost. It was washed away by the flood of May 1990. Have documented newspaper accounts to prove this. Still searching for photos of this historic relic. According to Charles Bowden a couple were once married on this bridge. Who was the couple and what year did they get married? What other interesting happenings occured on this bridge?
Charles,
I am deligently working on this bridge. It was built in 1898 the first bridge built across the Petit Jean River in Logan County. It was first known as the Thomas Bridge because at that location it was known as the Evan Thomas crossing or ford. I have the bridge contract, blue prints and a complete history of this bridge; now just looking for a photograph. My wife & I are going out this week to put a sign on the bridge that now exist that will read as follows: WANTED: PHOTOGRAPH OF OLD THOMAS ROAD BRIDGE, ALSO KNOWN AS THE KILBURN BRIDGE. With a way to contact me. Will keep in touch.
Thanx,
GHOSTBRIDGEHUNTER
i was visiting my dad the other day and in talking about this bridge he reminded me that the plaque that was on it was dated 1895. i am thinking of putting ads in the local paper to see if someone out there might have photos of this beautiful old bridge
of the 4 bridges south of Magazine spanning the Petit Jean, this one may have been my favorite. A Pratt Through truss built early in the 1900's, it was the most rustic & ancient appearing of the 4. even as a young adult i was always a bit timid crossing it because it was so worn out, and to me that is what made it a bridge. i have no photos of it, but it looks identical to the Tull Bridge in Saline county. the first time i saw the Tull bridge i could have sworn it was the Kilburn bridge, right down to the sloped approach and immediate left turn at its portal. my father was born at home on the kitchen table just 1/4 mile south of this bridge in 1927, i grew up about 2 miles northeast of it. and i recall a RUMOR that early in the bridges life that a couple actually had they're wedding on this bridge.