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GENERAL VIEW LOOKING NORTHEAST, SHOWING NEW ROADBED APPLIED OVER ORIGINAL BRIDGE - Dunlap's Creek Bridge, Spanning Dunlap's Creek, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA
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GENERAL VIEW LOOKING NORTHEAST, SHOWING NEW ROADBED APPLIED OVER ORIGINAL BRIDGE - Dunlap's Creek Bridge, Spanning Dunlap's Creek, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA
Description
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation; Keys and Searight; Herbertson Foundry; John Snowden; Delafield, Richard; Murphy, Kevin, historian; Zacher, Susan M, historian; Lowe, Jet, photographer
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Fayette County; Brownsville
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER PA,26-BROVI,2-2
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The present Dunlap's Creek Bridge is the fourth known structure at this site. The use of an innovative and unusual technological advance, cast iron for a bridge structure, may be predicated by the frequency of repair and replacement necessary at this location. The first two bridges collapsed under extreme weather conditions, in 1808 and 1820. The third, another timber frame structure, was deteriorated enough by 1832 that plans were initiated for a replacement. ...
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N171
  • Survey number: HAER PA-72
  • Building/structure dates: 1836-1839 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa1412.photos.134042p
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