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Port Vincent - Amite River Bridge

Livingston Parish, Louisiana, and Ascension Parish, Louisiana

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Port Vincent - Amite River Bridge

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Description 

The bridge opened on September 30, 1933, replacing a ferry that operated here. It was built from two old, abandoned bridges: a swing span from 1916 that crossed the Bayou Manchac on Jefferson Highway (then US-61, now LA-73) and a fixed span that crossed the Amite River on US-190 on the Baton Rouge-Hammond Highway (present-day Florida Blvd.). The bridge collapsed August 3, 1959 when a truck loaded with logs drove on it.

Facts 

Overview
Lost Bridge over Amite River at Port Vincent on LA-42
Location
Ascension Parish, Livingston Parish, Louisiana, and Ascension Parish, Louisiana
Status
Collapsed
History
Collapsed 1959
Design
Warren through truss with all verticals
Approximate latitude, longitude
+30.33194, -90.85167   (decimal degrees)
30°19'55" N, 90°51'06" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/706532/3357524 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
French Settlement
Inventory number
BH 57747 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Amite River (7)
Ascension Parish, Louisiana (6)
Built 1933 (667)
Built during 1930s (12,165)
Collapsed (431)
Livingston Parish, Louisiana (23)
Lost (28,424)
Lost 1959 (91)
 Lost during 1950s (858)
Louisiana (728)
Owned by state (16,553)
Through truss (16,746)
Truss (35,417)
Warren through truss (1,704)
Warren through truss with all verticals (439)
Warren truss (6,998)

Update Log 

  • September 29, 2019: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added truss type
  • September 29, 2019: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
  • August 24, 2013: Updated by M. D. Caillet: Added categories "Abandoned", "Amite River"

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Sources 

  • Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
  • Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com

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