Business U.S. Highway 79 Underpass – Taylor TX

City:
Taylor, TX

Site Type:
Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

Started:
1939

Completed:
1939

Designer:
Texas Highway Department

Contractor:
L. H. Lacy Company

Quality of Information:
Good

Marked:
Yes

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The Texas Highway Department and the United States Bureau of Public Roads built an underpass in 1939 to separate the grade of U.S. Route 79 and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad (currently Business U.S. Highway 79 and Union Pacific Railroad) in Taylor, Texas. The Texas Highway Department designed the bridge and L. H. Lacy Company constructed it.

Source notes

Plaque on bridge.

Site originally submitted by Larry Moore on August 28, 2018.

Location Info


600 block East 4th St
Taylor, TX Williamson County

Coordinates: 30.571379, -97.402477

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