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Kilgore Mill Bridge
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Interesting Government Statistic
Written by Eddie DouthittThe NBI report lists the 1998 average daily traffic for this bridge to be 90 vehicles per day. That's a pretty amazing feat for a bridge that burned in 1993!!!
Facts
- Overview
- Covered Town lattice truss bridge over Appalachee River on Briscoe Mill Rd. (Carl Davis Rd.)
- Location
- Walton County, Georgia, and Barrow County, Georgia
- Status
- Lost, burned by arsonists April 23, 1993
- History
- Built 1874, burned by arsonists April 23, 1993
- Builder
- - David J.Thompson
- Design
- Town Lattice Truss
- Dimensions
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Span length: 133.9 ft.
Total length: 133.9 ft.
Deck width: 10.2 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 7.5 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on April 14, 1975
- Also called
- Bethlehem Bridge
Briscoe Mill Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +33.89963, -83.73940 (decimal degrees)
33°53'59" N, 83°44'22" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/246688/3754406 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Winder South
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 75000572 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
GA 29750020 (Georgia bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 12623 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 09/1999)
- Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 0.0 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 1998)
- 90
Update Log
- May 11, 2010: Updated by Eddie Douthitt: Builder
- May 10, 2010: New photo from Eddie Douthitt
- May 9, 2010: Essay added by Eddie Douthitt
Sources
- Georgia Covered Bridges List
- Some of Georgia's Long Lost Covered Bridges - Has an article about the history
- Eddie Douthitt - eddied1962 [at] charter [dot] net
- Flickr - Good pic of the bridge
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