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Location
bypassed section of Sto, Knights Ferry, CA

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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.

Notes
Survey number HAER CA-314
Building/structure dates: 1863 initial construction
Building/structure dates: 1885 subsequent work
Building/structure dates: 1918 subsequent work
Building/structure dates: 1988 subsequent work
See HABS No. CA-158, Covered Bridge for further information--3 photos.

Significance: The Knight's Ferry Bridge was built in 1863-64 to replace an 1857 uncovered wooden truss that was destroyed in a flood. This was an important crossing on the heavily traveled Stockton-Sonora Road during the California Gold Rush. The Knight's Ferry Bridge is the longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi River.

Subjects
Transportation Industry
Covered Bridges
Pedestrian Bridges


Related Names
Howe, William
Knight, Capt. William
Locke, David
Dent, John
Dent, Lewis
Grant, Capt. Ulysses S.


Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

Contents
Photograph caption(s): 
NORTH PORTAL ELEVATION
SOUTH EAST PORTAL ELEVATION
OBLIQUE PERSPECTIVE SOUTHEAST PORTAL, WEST BY 290 DEGREES
MID SPAN CONNECTION DETAIL
DETAIL X CONNECTION
TOP CHORD CONNECTION DETAILS WITH CAST IRON ON STEEL PLATES
CONNECTION BETWEEN MID SPAN AND NORTH SPANS EAST BY 105 DEGREES
INTERIOR FROM SOUTHEAST PORTAL
INTERIOR FROM SOUTHEAST PORTAL
INTERIOR NORTH PORTAL DETAIL LOOKING NORTH
NORTHWEST ABUTMENT BELOW DECK DETAIL
MIDSTREAM PIER
MIDSTREAM PIER, NOTICE OVERFLOW GATE FOR FORBAY TO POWER PLANT
PERSPECTIVE WEST BY 270 DEGREES
WEST FACE LOOKING EAST
PERSPECTIVE WEST
PERSPECTIVE WEST
MIDSTREAM PIER
WEST FACE LOOKING EAST


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