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ET&G - Loudon Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Howe through truss bridge over Tennessee River on East Tennessee & Georgia Railroad
- Location
- Loudon, Loudon County, Tennessee
- Status
- Arsoned by retreating Confederates September 1st, 1863
- History
- Built ca 1850; Arson planned, but never attemped due to being well-guarded November 8th, 1861; Burned by retreating Confederates September 1st, 1863
- Railroad
- - East Tennessee & Georgia Railroad (ET&G)
- Design
- Howe through truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 1,700.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.74681, -84.33163 (decimal degrees)
35°44'49" N, 84°19'54" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/741288/3959150 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Loudon
- Inventory number
- BH 69275 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 11, 2020: Updated by Bob Davis: Added categories "Uncovered wooden deck truss", "One-lane traffic"
- December 15, 2019: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- August 20, 2018: New photos from Jack Schmidt
- September 20, 2015: Added by Luke
Sources
- Luke
- Lost Bridges - Image + Info
- Wikipedia - East Tennessee Bridge Burnings - Info on the bridge burning campaign
- Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- 14 Mar 1976, Page 85 - The Tennessean at Newspapers.com
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This bridge was 1700-ft long across the Tennessee River at Loudon, TN and was first used in March 1855 according to newspaper article of March 24, 1855 of the Brownlow Whig published in Knoxville, TN.