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Overview

Color photo provided by the Arkansas Highway & Transportation Department

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HAER photo: Side view

This photo from the Historic American Engineering Record clearly shows the truss configuration [HAER photos taken July 1988 by Louise T. Taft]

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HAER photo: Plaque

EIGHT MILE CREEK
Miller's Garage & Cont. Co.
Contractor.
Arkansas
State Highway Commission
Dwight H. Blackwood, Chairman
C.S. Christian, Engineer
1929

Facts

Overview: Lost pony truss bridge over Eight Mile Creek on AR 135/US 49B in Paragould
Location: Greene County, Arkansas
Status: Replaced by a new bridge
History: Built 1929 by Miller's Garage and Construction Co. of St. Louis, Missouri. Replaced 2001.
Builder: - Miller's Garage and Construction Co. of St. Louis, Missouri
Design: Pratt pony truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 69.9 ft.
Total length: 131.9 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +36.06759, -90.49080 (decimal degrees)
36°04'03" N, 90°29'27" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
USGS topographic map: Paragould East
Inventory numbers: AHTD 00934 (Arkansas Highway and Transportation Dept. bridge number)
NRHP 90000524 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 10356 (Bridgehunter.com ID)