Facts
- Overview
- Lost cantilevered through truss over White River on US 64 at Augusta
- Location
- Woodruff County, Arkansas
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Completed in November 1930; replaced 2001
- Builders
- - Ira G. Hedrick (Consulting engineer)
- Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. of Leavenworth, Kansas (Main span)
- Parham Construction Co. (Concrete approaches)
- Raymond Pile & Concrete Co. (Foundations)
- Design
- Cantilevered through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 399.8 ft.
Total length: 3,003.2 ft.
Deck width: 23.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.8 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.29007, -91.39418 (decimal degrees)
35°17'24" N, 91°23'39" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory numbers
- AHTD 00613 (Arkansas Highway and Transportation Dept. bridge number)
NRHP 90000505 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 10677 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Sources
- HAER AR-13 - Augusta Bridge
- AHTD
Comments
Augusta Bridge
I can remember going over this bridge for most of my life. It was a beautiful sight, but the lanes were so narrow.
When I first began driving at the age of 14, I would literally be drenched with sweat when my car finally made it across the bridge. Several times I met an oversized 18-wheeler when I reached the top and wondered if I had enough room to make it through.
I have seen several pictures of the bridge when it was destroyed and a friend of mine even helped build the new bridge.
I found out from my grandmother that when her family came here from Missouri, they lived in a covered wagon below the bridge for several months.