Photos
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HAER photo: Side view These photos from the Historic American Engineering Record show the bridge with the span lifted [HAER photo taken July 1988 by Louise T. Taft] |
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HAER photo: Oblique view |
Facts
- Overview
- Lost vertical-lift through truss bridge over White River on US 70 at De Valls Bluff
- Location
- Prairie County, Arkansas
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1924; new approaches added 1931; repaired in 1972 and 1988; replaced 2004
- Design
- Vertical lift Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 204.0 ft.
Total length: 1,657.7 ft.
Deck width: 19.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.8 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +34.79063, -91.44580 (decimal degrees)
34°47'26" N, 91°26'45" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory numbers
- NRHP 90000514 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 10526 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Sources
- HAER AR-21 - White River Bridge
Comments
This bridge was indeed demolished a few years ago. The bridge you saw was likely the old railroad bridge.
This bridge certainly does still exist. I just saw it last week from Highway 70. It is no longer in use, but it is there and still pretty doggone impressive.
Here are a couple of snaps that I took in 1997 of this gone but not forgotten span. It sure was narrow!
THIS BRIDGE NO LONGER EXISTS! UPDATE YOUR SITE!
Perhaps you can help me or direct me to a proper source.
Was there an earlier version of a movable bridge, perhaps for the RR, perhaps not, at DeValls Bluff.
Some of my relatives think my Grandfather operated a bridge at De Valls Bluff in ~ 1900 (+/- 10 years) and others say he ran a ferry.
Thanks for whatever.