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Chapter 3—Historic Context for Common Historic <strong>Bridge</strong> Types<br />

Figure 3-68.<br />

Chester County <strong>Bridge</strong> No. 225 (1907), spanning Tweed <strong>Creek</strong> at<br />

Hopewell Road, Oxford vicinity, Chester County, Pennsylvania. This<br />

structure is an early twentieth century example <strong>of</strong> a concrete slab bridge.<br />

Figure 3-69.<br />

Hartford Road (1943) over a branch <strong>of</strong> West <strong>Creek</strong> on Hartford Road<br />

(CR 5), Sebastian County, Arkansas. This concrete slab bridge has a stone<br />

substructure and an open concrete rail and was built by the Works<br />

Progress Administration during World War II. (Photographs from Historic<br />

<strong>Bridge</strong>s <strong>of</strong> the Midwest, found at http://bridges.midwestplaces.com/.)<br />

3-69a. Elevation view.<br />

3-69b. Detail <strong>of</strong> bridge “plaque.”<br />

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