NRHP: Sappa Creek Bridge
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Sappa Creek Bridge
NRHP Reference #: 92000713
NRHP Listing Date: 19920629
Location
2 mi E of Stamford, Harlan County, Nebraska
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Summary
A builder's plate mounted on the west web notes that the bridge was built by the Milwaukee Bridge Company in 1916. Unfortunately, the Harlan County Commissioners' records for 1916 do not refer to this bridge or the Milwaukee Bridge Company, suggesting that it was purchased from outside the county and later moved to its present location near Stamford. Harlan County's wide variety of bridge types also seems to suggest that this and several other bridges were purchased and moved from other locations. With its upper chords, end posts, and virtually all of the other web members comprising steel angles, the truss is atypically configured among Nebraska's secondary road spans. Numerous such "2-angle" trusses remain in use in Missouri, and a few are in place in Iowa, but in Nebraska this Pratt subtype is extremely rare. The Sappa Creek Bridge is thus technologically noteworthy as a singular example in Nebraska of an unusual structural configuration.
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