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LocationSpanning Whippoorwill Creek,
Lickskillet vicinity, KY
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER KY-27
Significance: The bridge is an early representative of an engineering type technology popular throughout Kentucky during the last quarter of the 19th and the first part of the 20th century. Constructed in 1880 is it one of few wrought iron bridges extant in the state, and the only structure built by the Pennsylvania Bridge Works documented
Subjects
Wrought-iron Truss BridgesVehicular BridgesPony Truss Bridges
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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