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Old Haughton Road Bridge

Washington County, North Carolina, and Chowan County, North Carolina

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Old Haughton Road bridge over Albemarle Sound, North Carolina (1987)

Driving over the old Haughton Road bridge across Albemarle Sound, North Carolina in May 1987. This bridge was obviously doomed even then. A new bridge can be seen under construction off to the right. Now no trace of this old bridge remains.This is one of several videos I've uploaded featuring old, and in some cases now demolished, bridges.

YT user lensarea - uploaded to BH by Jared Mixson

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Facts 

Overview
Lost Through truss bridge over Albemarle Sound on NC-32/94
Location
Washington County, North Carolina, and Chowan County, North Carolina
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
History
Built 1938
Design
Through truss
Dimensions
Total length: 18,000.0 ft. (3.4 mi.)
Approximate latitude, longitude
+35.98604, -76.50276   (decimal degrees)
35°59'10" N, 76°30'10" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/364530/3983444 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Roper North
Inventory number
BH 54459 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Beam (16,880)
Built 1938 (899)
Built during 1930s (12,165)
Chowan County, North Carolina (3)
Lost (28,446)
Lost 1990 (199)
Lost during 1990s (4,142)
Movable (3,114)
 North Carolina (1,033)
Over a mile long (311)
Replaced by new bridge (19,347)
Swing (1,561)
Through truss (16,760)
Total length over 2500 feet (951)
Truss (35,433)
Washington County, North Carolina (5)

Update Log 

  • April 15, 2022: Updated by Luke: Added other county
  • November 14, 2012: Added by Jared Mixson

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  • Jared
  • Luke
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Old Haughton Road Bridge
Posted April 15, 2022, by Luke

Note that to get the bridge to appear in Chowan AND Washington Counties, you HAVE to change the primary county to Bertie County, save the page, then change the primary and secondary counties to Washington & Chowan.

Editing after that completely undoes the above change, so if you make an edit, you have to re-do the whole rigamarole.