Leeville Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost vertical lift bridge over Bayou Lafourche on LA 1 at Leeville
- Location
- Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1970; Replaced by new bridge in 2010
- Design
- Vertical lift Pony plate girder
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 181.1 ft.
Total length: 2,646.3 ft. (0.5 mi.)
Deck width: 28.5 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.3 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +29.24680, -90.20775 (decimal degrees)
29°14'48" N, 90°12'28" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/771373/3238562 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Leeville
- Inventory number
- BH 19053 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 22, 2011: New Street View added by Jason Smith
- April 21, 2011: Updated by C Hanchey: Bridge was removed in 2010
Sources
- C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
- Douglas Butler
Comments
I beg your pardon sir. Carl Allen, my grandfather's brother, was living in Elton, Louisiana at the time and to my knowledge never made a trip to the site. If he oversaw construction, he did so from a few hundred miles away.
My grandfather, his wife, my brother and I were living in Golden Meadow during construction, relocated there by HL Allen and Sons. My grandmother brought me often to the site where Edgar, called "the boss" by the crew, worked every day. I still have a small block of concrete cut from that bridge.
While a beautiful curved bridge, the Leeville Bridge was a b**** to cross!
Correction: The late Carl Allen, Edgar's brother, led construction of this bridge.
My grandfather, Edgar L Allen Sr, was in charge of the crew who built this bridge. The HL Allen and Sons company had the contract. He was HL Allen's oldest son.
The old vertical lift span is soon to be demolished because it was replaced by a toll facility next to it, which is part of a larger project to elevate LA Hwy 1 over the Louisiana swampland between Golden Meadow and Port Fourchon.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/la/lafourche/leeville/
Any reason you visit here on May 10th?