Rating:
37633
{74}%
1 vote
Chapman's Bridge 40-39-01x / 40-37-02x
Photos
File:Bracing Top Chord, Bracing Bottom Chord - Chapman's Bridge, Highway 414, Keonee-Toxaway State Park, Gowensville, Greenville, SC HABS SC,39-GOW.V,1- (sheet 1 of 1).tif
Created by Alderman, R. D, Credit HABS
View this photo at Wikimedia Commons
BH Photo #308393
Description
Original location GPS: 34.9335,-082.9048
Facts
- Overview
- Modified Howe through truss bridge over Clearwater Creek (Orignally built across the Keowee River) on Route 133 (Originally Route 288)
- Location
- Pickens County, South Carolina, and Oconee County, South Carolina
- Status
- Destroyed by fire sparked by lightning.
- History
- Built 1917 on Route 288 near Jocasee, relocated to Keowee-Toxaway State Nature Area 1969, Struck by lightning & burned June 4th, 1974
- Design
- Modified Howe through truss
- Dimensions
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Span length: 131.0 ft.
Total length: 131.0 ft.
- Also called
- Chapman Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +34.91863, -82.88082 (decimal degrees)
34°55'07" N, 82°52'51" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/328191/3865633 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Salem
- Inventory numbers
- WGCB SC/40-37-02x (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
WGCB SC-39-01x (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
WGCB SC/40-39-01x (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 37633 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 6, 2022: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- April 22, 2015: Updated by Luke: Added GPS coords of original location, two more links, & WGCB numbers
- November 16, 2014: Updated by Luke: Merged plan from HABS
- October 15, 2008: Added by Kim Harvey