Powell Bridge | |
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 Powell Bridge | |
| Coordinates | 36°36′58″N 94°10′55″W / 36.6160766°N 94.1820064°W |
Powell Bridge | |
  Powell Bridge  Powell Bridge | |
| Location | 0.4 miles (0.64 km) southwest of Powell on Cowan Ridge Rd. off Highway E, near Powell, Missouri |
| Coordinates | 36°36′58″N 94°10′55″W / 36.6160766°N 94.1820064°W |
| Built | 1914-1915 |
| Architect | East St. Louis Bridge Co. |
| Architectural style | Pin-connected Pratt through truss bridge |
| NRHP reference No. | 11000215[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 20, 2011 |
| Carries | Single lane |
| Crosses | Big Sugar Creek |
| Locale | Powell, Missouri |
| Owner | Jack Hollingworth |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Pin-connected Pratt through truss bridge |
| Total length | 210 feet (64 m) |
| Width | 12 feet (4 m) |
| History | |
| Designer | East St. Louis Bridge Co. |
| Construction start | 1914 |
| Opened | 1915 |
| Closed | To auto traffic 2014 |
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The Powell Bridge is a National Register of Historic Places site that crosses Big Sugar Creek near the community of Powell, Missouri, a rural hamlet in McDonald County, Missouri in the Ozark Mountains region. The bridge was built by the East St. Louis Bridge Co. and was opened to traffic on August 16, 1915.[2] The single-lane pin-connected Pratt through truss was open to vehicular traffic from 1915 until a new two-lane bridge was built and opened beside it in 2015. It is currently owned by the Powell Historic Preservation Society and is one of three sites in McDonald County on the National Register of Historic Places, which also includes the Old McDonald County Courthouse. The community of Powell itself is best known as the home of famed gospel writer Albert E. Brumley.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 4/18/11 through 4/22/11. National Park Service. 2011-04-29.
- ^ "Powell Bridge; National Register of Historic Places Form" (PDF). Dnr.mo.gov. March 7, 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2017.