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Washington Ferry Bridge

Rhea County, Tennessee, and Meigs County, Tennessee
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Washington Ferry Bridge over the Tennessee, on State Highway 30, between Decatur and Dayton, Tennessee

5-span steel concrete girder bridge (river span on left, channel (barge) span in center, two river spans on right. View is from the old in Meigs County of the old Washington Ferry Landing.

Photo taken by Calvin Sneed in May 2008

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Overview
Concrete deck girder bridge over Tennessee River (Upper Chickamauga Lake) on State Highway 30
Location
Rhea County, Tennessee, and Meigs County, Tennessee
Status
Open to traffic
History
Bridge replaces the old Washington Ferry established in the early 1900's, which itself replaced an old Cherokee Indian crossing in the 1800's
Design
Concrete deck girder
Also called
Highway 30 Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+35.53624, -84.87965   (decimal degrees)
35°32'10" N, 84°52'47" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/692228/3934580 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Evensville
Inventory number
BH 36966 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Built 1994 (17)
Built during 1990s (306)
Concrete girder (519)
Deck girder (1,796)
Girder (3,230)
Have street view (9,883)
 Meigs County, Tennessee (7)
Modern (604)
Open (28,301)
Owned by state (9,806)
Rhea County, Tennessee (3)
Tennessee (770)

Update Log 

  • July 10, 2010: New Street View added by Calvin Sneed
  • May 3, 2010: New Street View added by Craig Philpott
  • August 3, 2008: New photos from Calvin Sneed
  • July 30, 2008: Updated by Calvin Sneed
  • July 28, 2008: Added by Calvin Sneed

Sources 

  • Calvin Sneed - us43137415 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Craig Philpott - cphilpott [at] puc [dot] edu
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Washington Ferry Bridge
Posted July 10, 2010, by Calvin Sneed (us43137415 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

Changed the street view to shore to shore, instead of from the middle of the bridge.

Washington Ferry Bridge
Posted October 30, 2009, by Calvin Sneed (us43137415 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

You are correct.. It is the same exact type of bridge, built by the same bridge company. This company also built the Highway 114 bridge (also the same type of bridge) over the Tennessee River at Clifton, Tennessee during which construction a bridge worker from Athens, Tennessee fell to his death into the river.

Washington Ferry Bridge
Posted August 6, 2008, by Matthew G (mhg96 [at] bellsouth [dot] net)

This bridge looks like the Alvin York Bridge over the Tennessee River on SH 20,100 US 412 in Decatur/Perry Counties