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8 b&w photos
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9 data pages
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TITLE:
Lee Creek Bridge, Spanning Lee Creek at State Highway No. 220, Cove City, Crawford County, AR

CALL NUMBER:
HAER ARK,17-COVCI,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 8   (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 8 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Bennett, Lola, historian
Smith, Corinne, historian

NOTE:
Survey number HAER AR-45

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-3).

Building/structure dates: 1900 initial construction

Significance: The Lee Creek Bridge is an excellent example of a Camelback Pennsylvania through truss, a late nineteenth/early twentieth century bridge type. It is significant as one of four Pennsylvania through trusses remaining in Arkansas, and is unique as the only one of the four which was not designed and engineered by the State Highway Department.

SUBJECTS:
ARKANSAS--Crawford County--Cove City
transportation
bridge construction
metal truss bridges

COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ar0103

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. GENERAL VIEW OF PENNSYLVANIA THROUGH TRUSS BRIDGE, LOOKING NORTHEAST FROM ROADBED, WITH PONY TRUSS APPROACH IN FOREGROUND
2. 3/4 VIEW OF BRIDGE, LOOKING SOUTHEAST
3. 3/4 VIEW OF BRIDGE, LOOKING NORTHEAST
4. VIEW OF BRIDGE DECK, LOOKING SOUTHWEST
5. GENERAL VIEW OF BRIDGE, LOOKING SOUTH
6. GENERAL VIEW OF BRIDGE, LOOKING SOUTHWEST
7. GENERAL VIEW OF BRIDGE, LOOKING NORTHEAST
8. VIEW OF UNDERSIDE OF BRIDGE AND NORTHEAST MASONRY PIER, LOOKING NORTHEAST

CONTROL #:
AR0103

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