Oldtown Bridge, Spanning Pend Oreille River, U.S. Highway 2, Oldtown, Bonner County, ID

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TITLE:
Oldtown Bridge, Spanning Pend Oreille River, U.S. Highway 2, Oldtown, Bonner County, ID

CALL NUMBER:
HAER ID,9-OLDTO,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 12 (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 3 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER ID-7

Building/structure dates: 1927 initial construction

Significance: Early example of long truss technology in Idaho and a crucial link on the highway system. / ...As a transportation link, the Oldtown Bridge was of tremendous significance on a local, state and national level. This bridge provided a connection between Idaho's Clark Fork Highway and Washington's Pend Oreille Highway, a crossing made previously only by ferry. The bridge also was located on the National Parks Highway and the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway. Locally, this crossing served as an important economic link, connecting Newport, Washington, to the then-thriving Humbrid Lumber Company across the border in Idaho.

SUBJECTS:
IDAHO--Bonner County--Oldtown
civil engineering
transportation
bridge construction

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.id0064

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. CONTEXTUAL VIEW OF BRIDGE, LOOKING WEST
2. BRIDGE ELEVATION, SOUTHWEST SIDE, LOOKING NORTH
3. PORTAL VIEW, LOOKING EAST
4. INSIDE WEST SPAN, LOOKING EAST
5. LOOKING NORTH AT OVERHEAD TRUSS DETAIL
6. OVERHEAD DETAIL ON WESTERN SPAN, LOOKING EAST
7. EAST END OF WEST SPAN, LOOKING NORTHEAST
8. OVERHEAD DETAIL, WEST SPAN, LOOKING NORTH
9. WALKWAY AND LIGHT POST, SOUTH SIDE, LOOKING EAST
10. DETAIL OF RAIL AND EXPANSION JOINT ON WEST APPROACH SPAN, LOOKING NORTH
11. WEST END OF BRIDGE, LOOKING SOUTHEAST
12. UNDERSTRUCTURE, WEST END OF BRIDGE, LOOKING EAST

CONTROL #:
ID0064

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