| 词条 | Red River Bridge (Arkansas) |
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| name = Red River Bridge | nrhp_type = | image = THREE-QUARTER VIEW OF BRIDGE FROM RIVER BANK, LOOKING EAST - Red River Bridge, Spanning Red River at U.S. Highway 82, Garland, Miller County, AR HAER ARK,46-GARCI,1-4.tif | caption = HABS photo, c. 1988 | location= {{jct|state=AR|US|82}}, over the Red River, Garland, Arkansas | locmapin = Arkansas#USA | built = 1931 | architect = Hedrick, Ira G.; Kansas City Bridge Co. | architecture = Pennsylvania through-truss | added = April 9, 1990 | delisted = August 11, 1999 | area = less than one acre | governing_body = State | mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64500021|title=Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS}} | refnum = 90000517[1] }} The Red River Bridge was a truss bridge crossing the Red River at Garland, Arkansas. It carried vehicular traffic from 1931 to 1990 and has since been demolished. The southwest corner of Arkansas was cut off from the rest of the state by the Red River, which was crossed only by ferries until the twentieth century. The bridge at Garland was designed by state highway engineer Ira G. Hedrick in October 1927 and located along the old military road from El Dorado to Texarkana (later to become part of U.S. Route 82). Hedrick's design included three {{convert|300|ft|m|adj=on}} through spans of Pennsylvania truss.[2] The winning bid for construction was submitted by the Kansas City Bridge Company, which was given the contract in September 1929. Construction activities for the bridge disturbed traffic through Garland, and this period was marked by conflict between state highway authorities and the city. (The new bridge also threatened the ferry business owned by Garland's Mayor Beasley.) The spans (though not the approaches) were complete by the morning of September 3, 1930, when two dynamite blasts threw the central span from its piers and into the river, doing $150,000 of damage. The motive was thought to be either resentment over the use of non-union labor on the bridge or an attempt to protect the local ferry business. A highway worker arrested in December and was convicted of dynamiting the bridge, but the man he accused of hiring him was acquitted, and no other persons were brought to trial for the crime. The bridge was repaired and opened, without ceremony, on July 15, 1931. Originally opened as a toll bridge, the Arkansas General Assembly made all bridges in the state free in 1938.[2] In later years, the bridge proved inadequate to support heavy truck traffic on Route 82. A steel support system was added to the east end in 1986, but the bridge continued to suffer from spalling concrete on the piers. The bridge was added to the Historic American Engineering Record in 1988. A new bridge was constructed upstream to carry Route 82 so that the old bridge could be closed.[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, but was in very poor condition, and it was ultimately demolished and removed from the National Register in 1999. See also
References1. ^{{NRISref|version=2009a}} {{National Register of Historic Places}}2. ^1 2 12 : Bridges completed in 1931|Demolished bridges in the United States|Former National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas|Transportation in Miller County, Arkansas|Buildings and structures in Miller County, Arkansas|Road bridges in Arkansas|U.S. Route 82|Bridges on the United States Numbered Highways|Former toll bridges in Arkansas|Red River of the South|Steel bridges in the United States|Pennsylvania truss bridges in the United States |
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