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Dalton Suspension Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned wire suspension bridge over Guadalupe River
- Location
- Victoria County, Texas
- Status
- Abandoned
- Design
- Abandoned pedestrian suspension bridge. Steel cables are suspended from concrete piers w/ metal cross-members.
- Dimensions
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Total length: 270.0 ft.
Deck width: 6.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +28.65877, -96.96238 (decimal degrees)
28°39'32" N, 96°57'45" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/699134/3171880 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Bloomington
- Inventory number
- BH 49409 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 20, 2014: Updated by Patrick Feller: Added category "guadalupe river"
- August 23, 2011: Added by aaron leibold
Sources
- aaron leibold - aaron [dot] mightypenguin [at] gmail [dot] com
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We moved there in 1955. The property was owned by the Hancock brothers from Elcampo. We drove cattle across the bridge and also hauled them across in bobtail trucks owned by Emmett Cole Trucking. One time a cotton truck tried to go across it loaded with 3 bales of cotton and didn't make it across. It was still in use in 1970 when we left the ranch. I always heard that the Bass brothers from Victoria built the Swinging Bridge as we called it.
Mike Olson
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