Stone Quarry Bridge

Stone Quarry Bridge
Nearest city Charleston, Illinois
Coordinates 39°31′16″N 88°6′36″W / 39.52111°N 88.11000°W / 39.52111; -88.11000Coordinates: 39°31′16″N 88°6′36″W / 39.52111°N 88.11000°W / 39.52111; -88.11000
Area less than one acre
Built 1883 (1883)
Built by King Iron Bridge Co.
Architectural style double intersection Pratt
MPS Coles County Highway Bridges Over the Embarras River TR
NRHP reference # 81000215[1]
Added to NRHP November 30, 1981

The Stone Quarry Bridge is a historic Pratt truss bridge which carries Township Road 1000N across the Embarras River in Coles County, Illinois. The bridge is a double-intersection Pratt truss bridge, a variant of the Pratt truss in which the diagonal supports cross multiple panels; it is the only bridge of its type in the county. It is 180 feet (55 m) long, and its eastern and western portals are 14 feet 10 inches (4.52 m) and 16 feet (4.9 m) high respectively. Built in 1883 by the King Iron Bridge Company, the bridge is the oldest truss bridge in the county as well as the oldest bridge in the county which is still open to traffic.[2]

The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 30, 1981.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Stone Quarry Bridge Inventory Form" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
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