​Pratt Truss Bridge

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Marker No: 11958

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 29.696465, -95.137016

Location: 1600 Georgia Avenue, Deer Park 

Marker Text: ​A pin connected truss bridge characteristic of the popular style that once dotted rural Texas, this bridge is the last one in Texas built by the Clinton Bridge and Iron Company of Iowa. Originally opened in 1891 on the Leon River in Coryell County in what later became Mother Neff State Park, the bridge was moved 6 miles in the late 1940s or early 1950s to County Road 322. By 1993 the bridge could no longer support modern road traffic. Texas Department of Transportation officials, in a historic preservation agreement with the Texas Historical Commission, painstakingly transported it more than 150 miles to this site. (1998)