Marker Inscription
Transportation
Historic Place
Colorado River Bridge
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About this site
Colorado River Bridge is a historic place in Wharton, Wharton County, dedicated in 1993. It is one of 27 historic places documented in Wharton County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 128 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 29.3087, -96.1038 near Wharton. The nearest cataloged historic site is Wharton County (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Williamson, Judge Robert McAlpin, Home, Williamson, Robert McAlpin, Site of the Home of, and Texas and New Orleans Railroad Bridge.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2093000117. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Colorado River Bridge at Wharton is a Pennsylvania through-truss span built in 1930 by the Dallas-based Austin Bridge Company, opening the river to automobile and truck traffic during the transition away from rail travel. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, it is the last remaining Pennsylvania truss bridge of its type in Texas and was rehabilitated by TxDOT and reopened in 2018.
Sources: atlas.thc.texas.goven.wikipedia.org
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