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Brushy Creek Bridge, Spanning Brushy Creek at County Route 398, Thorndale, Milam County, TX

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Brushy Creek Bridge, Spanning Brushy Creek at County Route 398, Thorndale, Milam County, TX

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Significance: The Brushy Creek Bridge is a surviving example of a standard highway bridge used in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It is a late example of pin-connected construction and is one of five remaining bridges employing a pin-connected Pratt through truss in Milam County.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N544
Survey number: HAER TX-59
Building/structure dates: 1911 Initial Construction

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1969 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
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Library of Congress
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