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Willowdale Bridge

Whitfield County, Georgia

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Abandoned road

Photo taken by Eddie Douthitt

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BH Photo #126507

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Pony truss bridge over Mill Creek on abandoned section of Willowdale Road in Dalton
Location
Whitfield County, Georgia
Status
Abandoned
History
Built 1915
Design
Half-hip Pratt pony truss
Dimensions
Span length: 59.7 ft.
Total length: 59.7 ft.
Deck width: 9.5 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+34.79932, -84.98795   (decimal degrees)
34°47'58" N, 84°59'17" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/684063/3852634 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Dalton North
Inventory numbers
GA 31350340 (Georgia bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 12635 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Abandoned (3,650)
Built 1915 (1,229)
Built during 1910s (9,636)
Georgia (633)
Half-hip Pratt pony truss (503)
Owned by county (20,783)
Pony truss (16,186)
 Pratt pony truss (3,638)
Pratt truss (9,301)
Span length 50-75 feet (10,076)
Structurally deficient (14,193)
Total length 50-75 feet (9,300)
Truss (32,801)
Whitfield County, Georgia (31)

Update Log 

  • April 30, 2017: New photos from Ben Tate
  • October 28, 2014: Updated by Nathan Holth: Corrected GPS.
  • October 19, 2008: Updated by Eddie Douthitt

Sources 

  • Eddie Douthitt - dalton1861 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Nathan Holth
  • Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
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Willowdale Bridge
Posted April 30, 2017, by Robert Elder (robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com)

This bridge has some unusual members. Modified perhaps?