- City:
- Georgetown, TX
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)
- Started:
- 1939
- Completed:
- 1940
- Designer:
- Texas Highway Department
- Contractor:
- Dean Word
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The bridges over the north and south forks of the San Gabriel River in Georgetown, Texas are identical designs of a cantilevered-suspended span type bridge, where a steel unit is placed between cantilevered arms projecting beyond the main supports of the bridge.The Texas Highway Department designed the bridges, and the state and the United States Bureau of Public Roads provided funding. Contractor Dean Word built the two 367-foot long bridges between 1939 and 1940. The bridges carry four lanes of traffic on North Austin Avenue and are the main north-south route over the rivers into the business section of Georgetown.
Source notes
Plaques on bridges Bridge NRHP eligibility reports https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7pFUifC47Y0Sy1ZUG5palhheG8/edit https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7pFUifC47Y0YTVNN0NZVUo0Y2c/editSite originally submitted by Larry Moore on May 24, 2016.
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