Rating:
32065
{99}%
2 votes
Gervais Street Bridge
Description
Also enters the city limits of West Columbia, South Carolina
Facts
- Overview
- Open-spandrel arch bridge over Congaree River on US 1 in Columbia
- Location
- Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, and Lexington County, South Carolina
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1927
- Builders
- - Hardaway Construction Co./Hardaway Contracting Co. of Columbus, Georgia
- Joseph Walker Barnwell of Charleston, South Carolina (Engineer)
- Design
- Reinforced concrete open-spandrel arch.
Closed-spandrel rounded arch at each end with nine open spandrel segmented arches between.
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 140.1 ft.
Total length: 1,415.1 ft.
Deck width: 36.1 ft.
- Recognition
-
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on November 25, 1980
- Also called
- Gervais Street Bridge (3rd)
Jefferson Davis Highway Congaree River Bridge
US378 Congaree River Bridge
US1 Congaree River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +33.99611, -81.05056 (decimal degrees)
33°59'46" N, 81°03'02" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/495331/3761725 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Southwest Columbia
- Inventory numbers
- SC 4020000100100 (South Carolina bridge number)
NRHP 80003676 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 32065 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 30, 2018: New photo from Andrew Penik
- June 15, 2017: New photo from Andrew Penik
- November 21, 2016: New photo from Andrew Penik
- July 18, 2016: New photo from Andrew Penik
- July 7, 2016: New photo from Andrew Penik
- January 25, 2016: New photo from Andrew Penik
- April 7, 2015: Photo imported by Dave King
- May 8, 2013: Photo imported by Joseph Hinson
- January 29, 2013: Photo imported by Joseph Hinson
- January 19, 2013: Photo imported by Joseph Hinson
- December 28, 2012: New Street View added by Joseph Hinson
- November 29, 2012: Photo imported by Joseph Hinson
- October 16, 2008: Updated by Kim Harvey
Sources
- Kim Harvey
- HAER SC-16 - Gervais Street Bridge, Gervais Street spanning Congaree River, Columbia, Richland County, SC
- Wikipedia
- Joseph Hinson - joethephotog [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Andy Peters - anpete1971 [at] gmail [dot] com
This photo gallery includes two photos of this bridge and two truss bridges during the record floods in this area.
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