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Carpenter's Ford Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pratt through truss bridge over Middle River on Craig Shop Road (Route 775)
- Location
- Augusta County, Virginia
- Status
- Open to one-lane traffic
- History
- Built 1903-04 by the Brackett Bridge Co.
- Builder
- - Brackett Bridge Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio
- Design
- Pin-connected, 8-panel Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Span length: 142.1 ft.
Total length: 142.1 ft.
Deck width: 11.2 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.8 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- Middle River Route 775 Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.24111, -78.88087 (decimal degrees)
38°14'28" N, 78°52'51" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/685453/4234690 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Fort Defiance
- Inventory numbers
- VA 2311 (Virginia bridge number)
BH 33589 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 28, 2010: Updated by C Hanchey: Bridge is known as the Carpenter’s Ford Bridge and was built by the Brackett Bridge Co.
- April 21, 2009: Updated by Anthony Dillon
- December 4, 2006: Posted photos from Kevin M. Byrne
Sources
- Kevin M. Byrne - dcfireman [at] comcast [dot] net
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com
- HAER VA-99 - Carpenter's Ford Bridge, State Route 775, over Middle River, Mount Meridian vicinity, Augusta, VA
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The Rte 774 Bridge is being demolished (April 2009). For the last 106 years it has been a 7 Panel through truss, NOT 8 panel. The Bridge is a Pin-connected, 7-panel Pratt through truss of 142.1 feet built in 1903 by the Brackett Bridge Company of Cincinnati, OH. The picture above is not the Rte 774 Bridge but the Rte 775 Bridge further down river.