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Lamb-Fish Bridge

Tallahatchie County, Mississippi

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Side view

Photos taken by Nathan Culpepper
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Deck view

Map 

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Facts 

Overview
Vertical lift bridge over the Tallahatchie River on Levee Road
Location
Tallahatchie County, Mississippi
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1905 by the American Bridge Co.
Builder
- American Bridge Co. of New York
Design
Vertical lift Deck plate girder
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 80.0 ft.
Total length: 828.8 ft.
Deck width: 15.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 75.4 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+34.02253, -90.19225   (decimal degrees)
34°01'21" N, 90°11'32" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/759260/3768209 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey
T. 25 N., R. 1 E., Sec. 21
USGS topographic map
Fishhook Lake
Inventory numbers
NRHP 82004631 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 22936 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 11/2007)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 25.1 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
80

Categories 

American Bridge Co. (67)
Built 1905 (333)
Built during 1900s (2,434)
Deck girder (140)
Girder (269)
Mississippi (139)
Movable (858)
NR-listed (1,523)
One-lane traffic (1,523)
Open (21,915)
Owned by county (14,313)
Plate girder (152)
Span length 75-100 feet (3,303)
Structurally deficient (10,992)
Tallahatchie County, Mississippi (2)
Total length 500-1000 feet (1,032)
Vertical lift (180)

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Comments 

Lamb-Fish Bridge
Posted December 3, 2007, by Jason Pardoe (wjpardoe [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Not too many years ago when I was a teenager, (1986 or so) this bridge still had the "draw" portion in place and the entire bridge was wooden. The bridge was open to traffic even though not all of the wood was in place. You would have to travel a piece, stop, get out, and move good wood from behind you to fill holes in front of you so you could advance a little more before repeating the process. A trip across the bridge took a good 15 - 30 minutes. The concrete portion was placed there in the late 80's or early 90's. Around this same time someone took a torch and cut the placard from the bridge...a dying shame!

Lamb-Fish Bridge
Posted July 15, 2007, by Nathan Culpepper (nathan [at] soundsgoodllc [dot] com)

This is definitely one of the coolest bridges I've ever come across.

Lamb-Fish Bridge
Posted July 3, 2007, by Terry Traver

Visited this bridge last week - June 2007 - still open to traffic.

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