Salkehatchie Bridge, State Route No. 64 spanning Salkehatchie River, Barnwell, Barnwell County, SC
Summary
Significance: The Salkehatchie Bridge is one of the earliest extant bridges built under the auspices of the South Carolina State Highway Commission. It is a representative example of a modular type of reinforced concrete bridge adopted by the South Carolina Highway Commission engineers in the early 1920s, for construction of small concrete T-beam bridges.
Survey number: HAER SC-33
Building/structure dates: 1925 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1999 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
South Carolina State Highway Department
Funderburk Construction Company
South Carolina State Highway Commission
Pennell, J Roy
Moorefield, Charles H
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
McGowan, Samuel
Sawyer, Ben M
Barnwell, Joseph W
Gooding, W J
Newell Construction Company
Newell Contracting Company
Funderbark, W G
New South Associates, contractor
Calloway, Deborah, transmitter
South Carolina Department of Transportation, sponsor
Location
barnwell, 33.25778, -81.38834
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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