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Grant Avenue Bridge
Photos
View Of Bridge, Looking South
Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record
View photos at Library of Congress
BH Photo #130824
Description
Prosser's first bridge across the Yakima was a wood and iron structure built at Grant Avenue in 1887. It was destroyed in November 1906 when a large timber carried by flood crest knocked out several of its piers. A terrified pedestrian rode one of the freed spans four miles before both were deposited on the downstream bank. An impressive, eight span, steel bridge was built at the Grant Avenue crossing in 1908.Facts
- Overview
- Lost through truss bridge over Yakima River on Grant Avenue in Prosser
- Location
- Prosser, Benton County, Washington
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1908; replaced 1986
- Builders
- - D.C. Maloney
- Security Bridge Co. of Billings, Montana
- Design
- Main spans: Two pin-connected, 9-panel Parker through trusses
Approach: One pin-connected Pratt pony truss - Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 189.0 ft.
Total length: 458.0 ft.
Deck width: 19.8 ft.
- Also called
- Prosser Steel Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +46.21389, -119.76889 (decimal degrees)
46°12'50" N, 119°46'08" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 11/286429/5121539 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Prosser
- Inventory number
- BH 38420 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 3, 2019: New photo from Dana and Kay Klein
- April 20, 2018: Updated by Richard Doody: Added historical data to description
- December 22, 2008: Added by James Baughn
Sources
- HAER WA-4 - Grant Avenue Bridge
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
- Richard Doody
- Dana and Kay Klein
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Interestingly robust pipeline truss in the postcard added by Dana.