Swan Creek Bridge

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Swan Creek Bridge
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Nearest city Forsyth, Missouri
Coordinates 36°42′2″N93°5′8″W / 36.70056°N 93.08556°W / 36.70056; -93.08556
Arealess than one acre
Built1914 (1914), 1932
Built byCanton Bridge Company
NRHP reference No. 83001055 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPSeptember 8, 1983
Removed from NRHPDecember 19, 1994

Swan Creek Bridge was a historic Pratt truss bridge located at Forsyth, Taney County, Missouri. It was built in 1914 by the Canton Bridge Company as one span of a double span highway bridge. The span was moved to a location at Swan Creek in 1932. [2] It was destroyed in 1989. [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and delisted in 1994. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Viola Hartman, Lynn Morrow, and James M. Denny (September 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Swan Creek Bridge" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved February 1, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (includes 7 photographs)
  3. "Truck Destroys Historic Bridge". St. Louis Post-Dispatch . October 1, 1989. p. 9D. Retrieved August 4, 2022 via Newspapers.com.