- 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.
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