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Heron Street Swing Bridge (Old)
Description
This is a swing bridge not a bascule bridge, bascule bridges have counterweights swing bridges most do not except some bobtail swing spans have machinery of center bearings and rim bearings, however that's a swing bridge.Facts
- Overview
- Lost Swing bridge over Wishkah River on Heron Street
- Location
- Aberdeen, Grays Harbor County, Washington
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1905 ; replaced 1949
- Design
- Truss Swing
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +46.97589, -123.81193 (decimal degrees)
46°58'33" N, 123°48'43" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/438245/5202804 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 81174 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 14, 2018: New photo from Leslie R trick
- April 13, 2018: Updated by Leslie R Trick: Actually old heron street bridge confrimed with 1917 map
- April 13, 2018: New photo from Douglas Butler
- April 12, 2018: Updated by Leslie R trick: fixed mistake when making the page
Related Bridges
- Heron Street Bridge (Older) (Predecessor)
- Heron Street Bridge (Successor)
Comments
Wishkah Street swing bridge (Old)
There are a few in Wisconsin iirc.
Heron Street Bridge (Old)
Okay I have never seen a swing bridge with that design are there any other swing bridges with that design on the site?
Heron Street Bridge (Old)
That is not a bascule bridge that is a swing bridge
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The old Heron Street Swing Bridge was steel-built in 1905 and closed in the 1920s.
It was preceded by a wooden swing bridge that was somewhat similar in style. That bridge was built in 1890 and replaced in 1905.