NRHP: Prairie Dog Creek Bridge
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Prairie Dog Creek Bridge
NRHP Reference #: 92000712
NRHP Listing Date: 19920629
Location
9.5 mi SW of Orleans, Harlan County, Nebraska
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Summary
In June 1913 the county board ordered that an eighty-foot span be built over Prairie Dog Creek in Eldorado Township. Construction was conditional on whether an east-west road was opened just below Prairie Dog Creek. The road (which is still in use) was apparently opened shortly thereafter, and the Prairie Dog Creek Bridge was then subsequently constructed. Consisting of a single, rigid-connected Camelback pony truss, the bridge has carried vehicular traffic since in essentially unaltered condition. As the earliest of some twenty Camelback pony trusses found in the statewide inventory, it is technologically significant as a well preserved example of this Pratt truss subtype.
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