Mathers Bridge

Photos

Banana River Bridge

Photo taken by C Hanchey in February 2011

BH Photo #194154

Motoring Through Mathers

A video showing the swing span in operation.

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Historic American Engineering Record for this bridge is available if you copy and paste this into your browser:

Overview: Swing bridge over Banana River on Banana River Drive (CR 3) in Indian Harbour Beach
Location: Indian Harbour Beach, Brevard County, Florida
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1927; rehabilitated 2005
Builder: - Austin Brothers Bridge Co. of Dallas, Texas/Atlanta, Georgia [also known as Austin Bridge Co.]
Design: Swing
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 202.4 ft.
Total length: 791.7 ft.
Deck width: 22.0 ft.
Also called: Banana River Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude: +28.14922, -80.60600 (decimal degrees)
28°08'57" N, 80°36'22" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 17/538685/3113795 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Tropic
Average daily traffic (as of 2018): 2,569
Inventory numbers: FDOT 704063 (Florida Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
BH 12320 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of March 2018): Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 66.4 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com

Mathers Bridge

Posted March 20, 2019, by Nathan Holth (webmaster [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

The bridge seen today is modern and not historic. It completely replaced the original riveted truss. Here is the original bridge as seen in 1981.

Banana River Bridge

Posted December 29, 2013, by victor (vlbrunton [at] juno [dot] com)

Also known as the Mathers Bridge. See Wikipedia.