Bunker Hill Bridge, Spanning Lyle Creek, bypassed section of Island Fo, Claremont vicinity, Catawba County, NC

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6 drawings
12 b&w photos
10 data pages
2 photo caption pages
2 color transparencies

TITLE:
Bunker Hill Bridge, Spanning Lyle Creek, bypassed section of Island Fo, Claremont vicinity, Catawba County, NC

CALL NUMBER:
HAER NC-46

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 6
Photo(s): 12 (5 x 7)
Data Page(s): 9 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 2
Color Transparencies: 2

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER NC-46

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N979).

Building/structure dates: 1894 initial construction

Building/structure dates: 1921 subsequent work

Building/structure dates: 1978 subsequent work

Building/structure dates: 1994 subsequent work

Significance: The Bunker Hill Bridge is the only surviving historic covered bridge in North Carolina and the only surviving Haupt truss covered bridge in the United States. Though it never reached the mainstream of bridge building, the Haupt truss is of engineering interest as an innovative example of mid-nineteenth century bridge engineering, as well as for its associations with Gen. Herman Haupt, a prominent nineteenth century civil engineer who did pioneering work in the structural analysis of bridges.

SUBJECTS:
NORTH CAROLINA--Catawba County--Claremont vicinity
covered bridges
transportation

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.nc0503

CONTROL #:
NC0503

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