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NS - Watauga Bridge
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Photo taken by Calvin Sneed in April 2010
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BH Photo #162801
Description
THe East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad first built a bridge at this site in 1858. The Community of Watauga nearby was known as Carter's Station during the Civil War when wooden spans crossed the river. In 1901 the worst flood since 1867 washed the bridge away and a temporary wooden one was put in it's place. An additional masonry pier was added and steel spans installed in the fall of 1901. The use of concrete on top of the stone shows that the bridge was elevated when the current spans were put in place. Deck plate girders were not in use until the 1930's, possibly 1940's.
Facts
- Overview
- Deck plate girder bridge over Watauga River on Norfolk Southern Railway
- Location
- Watauga, Carter County, Tennessee
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Railroads
- - Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Southern Railway (SOU)
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.36886, -82.29797 (decimal degrees)
36°22'08" N, 82°17'53" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/383561/4025643 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Johnson City
- Inventory number
- BH 44909 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 17, 2018: Updated by Bob Davis: added previous name to community at bridge used in Civil War and place the age of current span.
- April 18, 2010: Added by Calvin Sneed
Sources
- Calvin Sneed - us43137415 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Bob Davis - bobdaviscfi [at] earthlink [dot] net