NRHP: Lewellen State Aid Bridge
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Lewellen State Aid Bridge
NRHP Reference #: 92000756
NRHP Listing Date: 19920629
Location
1 mi S of Lewellen, Garden County, Nebraska
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Summary
The Garden County Commissioners first applied for state aid to build bridges over the North Platte River at Lewellen in July 1916. In 1926 the Nebraska Department of Public Works designed a structure for the Lewellen crossing. The design called for the bridge to consist of seven, 100-foot, riveted Pratt pony trusses, supported by piers of fifty-foot long Bethlehem H-piles encased in concrete. The Lewellen Bridge is significant as a strategic crossing of the North Platte River and as one of the last remaining structures from the state aid bridge program.
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