Asylum Avenue Viaduct, Spanning Second Creek & Southern Railroad at State Route 62, Knoxville, Knox County, TN
Summary
Significance: It is one of the oldest known continuous deck girder bridge erected in the U.S. The contractor foe the bridge was the Foster-Creighton-Gould Company of Nashville, Tennessee. Today known as the Foster Creighton Company, it is a major firm in the southeast.
Survey number: HAER TN-29
Building/structure dates: 1909 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Foster-Creighton-Gould Company
Frierson, L W
W. B. Crenshaw and David Meriwether
Location
knox county, 35.98789, -84.05713
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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