Rating:
8 votes

Tanners Bridge

Walton County, Georgia, and Barrow County, Georgia

Photos 

North side oblique

Photo taken by Eddie Douthitt in May 2010

Enlarge

BH Photo #164592

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Pratt through truss bridge over Apalachee River on Tanners Bridge Road
Location
Walton County, Georgia, and Barrow County, Georgia
Status
Abandoned
History
Built 1918
Design
Through truss
Dimensions
Span length: 81.7 ft.
Total length: 81.7 ft.
Deck width: 11.5 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.7 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+33.89718, -83.75755   (decimal degrees)
33°53'50" N, 83°45'27" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/245001/3754179 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Bold Springs
Inventory numbers
GA 29750040 (Georgia bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 12622 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Barrow County, Georgia (6)
Built 1918 (496)
Built during 1910s (9,632)
Closed (2,668)
County line crossing (533)
Georgia (633)
Have street view (26,931)
Owned by county (20,781)
 Pratt through truss (5,386)
Pratt truss (9,293)
Span length 75-100 feet (6,429)
Structurally deficient (14,210)
Through truss (15,052)
Total length 75-100 feet (6,583)
Truss (32,772)
Walton County, Georgia (6)

Update Log 

  • April 17, 2019: New photo from Todd Vierling
  • May 31, 2010: New photo from Eddie Douthitt
  • May 9, 2010: Updated by Eddie Douthitt: Corrected GPS coordinates and name

Sources 

  • Eddie Douthitt - dalton1861 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Todd Vierling - tv [at] duh [dot] org
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Comments 

North (barrow) side looking south
Posted October 6, 2020, by J

Seems all the wood on the south side is gone. Just the wood in the middle remains.

Tanners Bridge
Posted August 7, 2013, by tom

Structurally deficient is accurate, but still there after almost 100 years.

Amazing what is hidden in the tree line ignored by the average passerby.