Rating:
47530
{87}%
8 votes
Old Victory Bridge
Description
Center span of bridge removed.
Facts
- Overview
- Open-spandrel arch bridge over the Apalachicola River on an old alignment of US 90
- Location
- Chattahoochee, Gadsden County, Florida, and Jackson County, Florida
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- History
- Built 1922
- Builder
- - Masters & Mullen Construction Co. of Cleveland, Ohio
- Design
- Open-spandrel arch w bascule
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +30.70105, -84.85880 (decimal degrees)
30°42'04" N, 84°51'32" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/705069/3398428 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Chattahoochee
- Inventory number
- BH 47530 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 18, 2012: New photos from James McCray
- February 1, 2012: Updated by J.P.: added builder
- July 31, 2011: New photos from Ben Tate
- January 5, 2011: New Street View added by Cliff Darby
- January 5, 2011: New Street View added by James Baughn
- January 5, 2011: Added by James McCray
Sources
- James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Cliff Darby - cliffsta1987 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Douglas Butler
Actually this was a Bascule bridge according to these two photos found on the Florida Memory website. There's also some vintage pictures, videos and all sorts of stuff about the State of Florida. The website is www.floridamemory.com