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Kilgore Mill Bridge 10-07-04x
Interesting Government Statistic
Written by Eddie Douthitt
The 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
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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)
- Quadrangle map:
- Winder South
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 75000572 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
GA 29750020 (Georgia bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
WGCB 10-07-04x (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 12623 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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
I rode out the last recession in the sunbelt, and was living in Georgia in '93 and distinctly remember news stories when this bridge bridge burned.
It is lost.
Can't explain either the NBI or Wiki Commons information.