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Johnson Toll Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pratt through truss bridge over Tallapoosa River on private toll road
- Location
- Elmore County, Alabama, and Montgomery County, Alabama
- Status
- Collapsed
- History
- Built 1888 for the L&N in Kentucky; Moved to Alabama circa 1916 for use as a private toll bridge; collapsed 1980
- Builder
- - Pencoyd Bridge & Construction Co. of Pencoyd, Pennsylvania
- Design
- (1)7-panel Pratt through truss
(1)6-panel Pratt through truss - Also called
- Wares Ferry Toll Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +32.43330, -86.12461 (decimal degrees)
32°25'60" N, 86°07'29" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/582295/3588802 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 86019 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 29, 2019: Updated by Luke: Mapped
- December 29, 2019: New photos from Melissa Brand-Welch
- December 29, 2019: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added truss type
- July 22, 2019: Added by Melissa Brand-Welch
Sources
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Luke
Comments
Johnson Toll Bridge
No problem, Melissa! Unfortunate that it doesn't seem anything regarding the NRHP seemed to have happened, otherwise there would be an informational PDF to help.
Johnson Toll Bridge
Luke, Thank You !
Johnson Toll Bridge
I find it intriguing. I'd love to know more about it.
Johnson Toll Bridge
The two spans on this bridge appear to be mismatched. I suspect they were probably built at different locations at different times - unless one of them got a major overhaul. To me, one span looks about two decades older than the other.
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Too bad this one was not saved. Alabama has some great historic bridges, but it is not bursting at the seams with rare and unique wrought iron trusses like Pennsylvania is. This bridge would have been a significant structure even in Pennsylvania.