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Dillingham Street Bridge

Muscogee County, Georgia, and Russell County, Alabama
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Overview

The Dillingham Street Bridge links Phenix City, AL with Columbus, GA. The bridge marks the location where the last battle of the Civil War was fought.

Photo taken by James McCray

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Overview
Concrete arch bridge over Chattahoochee River on Dillingham Street in Columbus
Location
Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, and Russell County, Alabama
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1910-12 by B.H. Hardaway
Builder
- B.H. Hardaway
Design
Five-span closed-spandrel concrete arch
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 139.8 ft.
Total length: 699.8 ft.
Deck width: 31.8 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+32.46346, -84.99791   (decimal degrees)
32°27'48" N, 84°59'52" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/688166/3593573 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Columbus
Inventory numbers
GA 21501270 (Georgia bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 12595 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 09/2010)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 71.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
6,250

Categories 

Alabama (498)
Arch (9,419)
B.H. Hardaway (1)
Built 1912 (524)
Built during 1910s (6,729)
Chattahoochee River (7)
Closed-spandrel arch (2,759)
Columbus, Georgia (7)
Deck arch (8,700)
Georgia (386)
 Have street view (9,891)
Muscogee County, Georgia (7)
NR-eligible (3,749)
Open (28,316)
Owned by county (16,489)
Russell County, Alabama (4)
Span length 125-175 feet (2,954)
State line crossing (514)
Total length 500-1000 feet (1,805)

Update Log 

  • March 7, 2008: Updated by James McCray
  • January 31, 2008: New photos from James McCray

Sources 

  • James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Nathan Holth
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Dillingham Street Bridge
Posted June 25, 2012, by Tony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

On the contrary Cathy... It's a real beauty that needs some TLC so it will last another hundred years!

Dillingham Street Bridge
Posted June 25, 2012, by Cathy Fussell (cathyhfussell [at] gmail [dot] com)

This bridge is not ugly!