Tebb's Bend Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Green River on Tebbs Bend Road
- Location
- Taylor County, Kentucky
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1907; Removed and replaced by a replica 2016
- Builder
- - Vincennes Bridge Co. of Vincennes, Indiana
- Design
- Pin-connected, 9-panel Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 165.0 ft.
Total length: 166.0 ft.
Deck width: 15.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 20.0 ft.
- Also called
- Green River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.24500, -85.36417 (decimal degrees)
37°14'42" N, 85°21'51" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/645086/4123305 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Cane Valley
- Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
- 64
- Inventory numbers
- KY 109-C00015N (Kentucky bridge number)
BH 18947 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of August 2014)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Imminent Failure (1 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 24.2 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- May 5, 2018: Updated by Luke: Added builder per forum comment; Noted relocation
- July 20, 2015: New photos from James McCray
- June 9, 2015: Updated by Nathan Holth: This bridge is replaced or soon to be replaced.
- June 30, 2010: New photo from Andrew Hansford
- October 13, 2008: New photos from James McCray
Related Bridges
- Tebb's Bend Battlefield Park Bridge (Parts reused in)
- Tebb's Bend Replica Bridge (Successor)
Sources
- James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Andrew Hansford
- Nathan Holth
- Luke
Comments
This bridge is on a historical American Civil War site. Morgan's raiders burned the original covered bridge in July 1863. Explains why that want to preserve the stones etc.
Not bad! Looks like Corten steel was used: http://www.columbiamagazine.com/photoarchive.php?photo_id=64...
The old bridge was lifted down and moved to a new site nearby for a pedestrian path: http://www.columbiamagazine.com/photoarchive.php?photo_id=59...
Took pics of the bridge earlier in July. The encouraging thing is that it looks like that they have removed the bridge intact instead of cutting it up for scrap. This indicates that the bridge seems to not be on the way to the scrap heap but will be restored, at the very least, abandoned intact on the side of the road.
If this historic truss is really going to be relocated and preserved, it isn't made clear in the contract plans or proposal. It is only made clear that some abutment stones will be salvaged. There is no special provision (that I could see) for non-destructive removal of the truss. It is simply called out as a Lump Sum, Remove Exist Superstructure.
The replacement bridge will be a truss, but will lack the essential details that gave the historic bridge its structural design, historic significance, and aesthetic qualities. These missing qualities include but are not limited to pin connections, rivers, built-up beams, and use of v-lacing.
The two bridges will look as similar as the Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge... same general type but completely different design details and visual appearance.
See attached details of replacement truss showing bolted truss design lacking pins.
Closed to traffic in August 2014. Set to be replaced with a very similar appearing crossing. The old bridge will be moved to the adjoining reserve and used as a pedestrian bridge.
More: http://bridgestunnels.com/bridges/kentucky/tebbs-bend-road-b...
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ky/taylor/109C00015N/
This bridge was built in February/March 1907 and finished just before midnight on 31-March-1907.
It was built by the Vincennes Bridge Company
Some history can be found here:
http://www.columbiamagazine.com/index.php?sid=72266
It was condemned and closed to traffic (and should have been several years before) on 20-August-2014.
Near that time, large rectangular concrete barriers were placed at each end to prevent vehicle access.
On 17-April-2015, it was lifted from its piers and set in the river, then drug from the river and hauled to where it now sits as a pedestrian bridge at the adjacent Tebb's Bend Battleground property.
I believe it's present location is only temporary, as it does not span anything; and, when money allows, I believe it will be relocated to span one of the several creek crossings within the battleground park.