Dandridge Bridge
Photos
1 3-span Warren cantilevered through truss bridge with polygonal top chords over the French Broad River (Douglass Lake) at Jefferson City, Tennessee
One of 3 cantilevered Warren through truss bridges built after TVA impounded dams on rivers in East Tennessee.
Photo taken by Calvin Sneed in August 2008
BH Photo #122328
Facts
- Overview
- 1 3-span Warren cantilevered through truss bridge with polygonal top chords over French Broad River on State Highway 92 in Dandridge
- Location
- Dandridge, Jefferson County, Tennessee
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1942-1944; rehabilitated 1962, repair work scheduled March 1, 2010; Demolished November 2017
- Builder
- - Nashville Bridge Co. of Nashville, Tennessee
- Design
- One three-span cantilevered continuous Warren through truss with polygonal top chords and five steel I-beams.
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 333.0 ft.
Total length: 1,466.9 ft.
Deck width: 18.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.0 ft.
- Also called
- Dr. James D. Hoskins-H.B. Jarnigan Bridge
French Broad Iron Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.01000, -83.41167 (decimal degrees)
36°00'36" N, 83°24'42" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/282649/3987747 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Jefferson City
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 3,260
- Inventory numbers
- TN 45SR0920005 (Tennessee bridge number)
BH 32578 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of September 2017)
- Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 65.5 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- April 8, 2018: Updated by David Backlin: Added lost date to History
- December 1, 2017: New photos from christopher covert
- November 30, 2017: Updated by Robert Elder: Added category "French Broad River"
- November 30, 2017: Updated by Nathan Holth: Demolished and replaced.
- August 19, 2015: Updated by Andy Peters: added Aug. 2015 news link about bridge replacement
- April 24, 2009: New photos from Christopher McCarter
- September 2, 2008: Updated by Calvin Sneed
- August 27, 2008: Updated by Calvin Sneed
- August 24, 2008: Updated by Calvin Sneed
Sources
- Calvin Sneed - us43137415 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Christopher McCarter - cmccarternx01 [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Project Website
- Andy Peters - anpete1971 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Nathan Holth
- David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net
Comments
Given its treatment of its historic bridges, TDOT should change their name to TennDOT, since it sounds just like PennDOT!
I visited this bridge September 15th, 2017. Construction is well underway on the new bridge, though I don't anticipate completion until 2018
Attached is a TVA photograph of the original Dandridge bridge, replaced in 1942 by the current bridge. It was east of the present bridge. The view are from the south end, looking across the river toward Dandridge. Portions of this bridge were salvaged and re-used in Sevier County below Douglas Dam. The road to Chestnut Hill was not yet part of state route #92.
This bridge replaced the original Dandridge Bridge when Douglas Dam was built, which, in turn, replaced an earlier ferry. A replacement bridge will be built immediately west of the present bridge, and will require acquiring some right of way, acquisition of which was underway as of June 2014.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/tn/jefferson/45SR0920005/
Matt,I agree about PennDOT and the way they operate.Didn't know Tennessee was that bad.By the way,I live in Pa.