Enterprise Parker Truss Bridge, Spanning Smoky Hill River on K-43 Highway, Enterprise, Dickinson County, KS

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TITLE:
Enterprise Parker Truss Bridge, Spanning Smoky Hill River on K-43 Highway, Enterprise, Dickinson County, KS

CALL NUMBER:
HAER KANS,21-ENPRI,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 24 (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

NOTE:
Survey number HAER KS-5

Building/structure dates: 1924 initial construction

Significance: The Enterprise is a single span, steel and concrete, high through parker truss and is one of only twenty-nine remaining examples in the state. As a riveted truss, the Enterprise bridge represents a good example of late metal truss construction.

SUBJECTS:
KANSAS--Dickinson County--Enterprise
pedestrian bridges
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.ks0075

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. WEST SIDE LOOKING EAST-SOUTHEAST
2. WEST SIDE LOOKING EAST-NORTHEAST
3. EAST SIDE LOOKING WEST-SOUTHWEST
4. EAST SIDE LOOKING WEST-NORTHWEST
5. CAST STEEL BOLSTER--SOUTH ABUTMENT
6. UPPER END CHORD, VERTICAL, GUSSET PLATE AND END POST
7. UPPER INSIDE CHORD, VERTICAL, LATERAL STRUT, UPPER LATERAL & GUSSET PLATE, TWO DIAGONAL BRACES
8. UPPER INSIDE CHORD, VERTICAL, LATERAL STRUT, UPPER LATERAL & GUSSET PLATE, ONE DIAGONAL BRACE
9. TOP LATERAL STRUT BRACING
10. TOP LATERALS, LATERAL STRUT AND UPPER CHORD
11. COUNTER DIAGONAL BRACES
12. ROCKER ASSEMBLY AT NORTH PIER
13. PORTALS AND END POST LOOKING NORTH
14. PORTALS AND END POST LOOKING SOUTH
15. LOWER CHORD, STRINGER, FLOOR BEAM, LATERAL GUSSET PLATE & LATERAL BRACE
16. SOUTH ABUTMENT
17. NORTH PIER
18. GUSSET PLATE, LOWER CHORD AND UTILITY STEP
19. LOWER CHORD, VERTICAL, GUSSET PLATE AND UTILITY STEP
20. WEST SIDE SHOWING SIDEWALK
21. DECORATIVE RAIL ON SIDEWALK
22. NORTH END OF TRUSS LOOKING EAST-SOUTHEAST
23. LOWER CHORD, LATERAL BRACE, LATERAL GUSSET PLATE AND SIDEWALK STEP
24. SOUTH END LOOKING NORTH ALONG SIDEWALK

CONTROL #:
KS0075

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