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Sherar's Bridge (1979)
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Sherar's Bridge
Photo taken by Richard Doody in December 2009
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BH Photo #420566
Description
One of the first suspension bridges in the inland northwest was strung across the Deschutes River by John Todd in 1860. The crossing was located near the Indian fishing grounds just below the river’s falls on an extension of the Barlow toll road. Joseph H. Sherar acquired the property in 1871 for $7,000. Shearer spent ten times that amount on improvements to the road and recovered it by charging hefty tolls. He built a hotel and livery stable nearby, ran a post office and lent his name to the falls and the crossing. The road’s importance declined after the Oregon Trunk Railway was built up the canyon in 1910. The structures built by Shearer have all disappeared and the only physical evidence of the crossing’s horse and wagon era importance is the historical marker erected by the state of Oregon and the faux petrpglyphs cast on the outside beams of the modern concrete bridge.
Facts
- Overview
- Steel girder bridge over Deschutes River on OR-206
- Location
- Wasco County, Oregon, and Sherman County, Oregon
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1979
- Design
- Steel stringer
- Dimensions
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Span length: 65.9 ft.
Total length: 65.9 ft.
Deck width: 27.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +45.26094, -121.03615 (decimal degrees)
45°15'39" N, 121°02'10" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/654076/5013814 (zone/easting/northing)
- Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
- 80
- Inventory numbers
- OR 00939A (Oregon Dept. of Transportation structure number)
BH 80946 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of October 2017)
- Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 87.4 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- September 18, 2020: New photos from Mike Garland
- April 19, 2018: Updated by Richard Doody: Added historical info to description
- April 1, 2018: Added by Richard Doody
Sources
- Richard Doody
- Mike Garland - Rapier342 [at] comcast [dot] net