NRHP: Roscoe State Aid Bridge
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Roscoe State Aid Bridge
NRHP Reference #: 92000709
NRHP Listing Date: 19920629
Location
.5 mi SE of Roscoe, Keith County, Nebraska
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Summary
In late summer 1934 the Nebraska Bureau of Roads and Bridges completed the drawings for a multiple-span bridge over the South Platte River in Keith County. The Roscoe State Aid Bridge, located near the town of Roscoe, consists of seven steel I-beam stringer spans, supported by concrete piers in the river's channel and steel pile bents in the flood plain. Completed by the spring of 1935, it has carried traffic since in essentially unaltered condition. The Roscoe Bridge was among the final projects undertaken using state aid. Soon after its erection, the state aid bridge fund was phased out, ceasing entirely in 1936. This structure is noteworthy as a strategic crossing of the Platte River, as a well preserved example of long-span beam construction, and as one of the last state aid bridges built in Nebraska.
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