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9 b&w photos
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3 data pages
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TITLE:
Suger Creek Bridge, Spanning Suger Creek, Hopkinsville vicinity, Christian County, KY

CALL NUMBER:
HAER KY,24-HOPVI.V,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 9   (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 2 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Groton Bridge & Manufacturing Company
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
Hawke, Paul H., transmitter
Rawlings, G. D., photographer
Daniel, J. E., photographer
Rawlings, Gregory D., historian

NOTE:
Survey number HAER KY-7

Building/structure dates: 1894 initial construction

Significance: Oldest dated bedpost pony truss in Kentucky. The only example in the State built by the Groton Bridge Company of New York.

SUBJECTS:
KENTUCKY--Christian County--Hopkinsville vicinity
civil engineering
transportation
bridge construction

OTHER TITLE:
Kentucky Route 124 Bridge

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.ky0194

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. PORTAL VIEW, FROM WEST
2. PORTAL VIEW, FROM EAST
3. OBLIQUE VIEW, FROM EAST
4. VIEW OF TOP CHORD AND DIAGONALS
5. DETAIL VIEW OF BRIDGE BUILDER/DATE PLATE
6. DETAIL VIEW OF VERTICAL END POST
7. VIEW OF OUTRIGGER ON INTERMEDIATE POST
8. VIEW OF FLOOR SYSTEM
9. VIEW OF END POST AND BOTTOM CHORD AT EAST ABUTMENT

CONTROL #:
KY0194

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