Columbia River Bridge (Wenatchee)
Coordinates: 47 ° 24 ′ 53 " N , 120 ° 17 ′ 50" W.
| Columbia River Bridge (Wenatchee) |
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 (looking towards East Wenatchee) |
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Footbridge water pipeline |
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| Crossing of | Columbia River | |
| place | East Wenatchee and Wenatchee , Washington | |
| construction | Truss bridge | |
| overall length | 402.3 m | |
| Longest span | 158.5 m | |
| Clear height | 13.7 m | |
| start of building | 1906 | |
| opening | 1908 | |
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The Columbia River Bridge , also known as the Old Wenatchee Bridge , is a pedestrian bridge over the Columbia River between Wenatchee in Chelan County and East Wenatchee in Douglas County of Washington state . The bridge also leads a water pipeline of the Wenatchee Reclamation District for irrigation of fruit plantations in East Wenatchee.
history
The truss bridge was built between 1906 and 1908 by the Washington Bridge Company and was the first bridge over the Columbia in Wenatchee. Mainly planned as part of an irrigation system for the fruit growing on the east side of the river , it was also the only road bridge until the neighboring Senator George Sellar Bridge was built in 1950 and led to US Highway 2 . The bridge u. a. by the operator of the irrigation systems and the founder of the Great Northern Railway James J. Hill . Due to the planned collection of a toll , the bridge was acquired by the Washington State Highway Board in 1911 at the initiative of the local population and became the property of the Wenatchee Reclamation District with the cessation of road traffic in 1951 . It has been used as a pedestrian bridge since then and is now part of the 10 km Apple Capital Loop Trail in Chelan and Douglas Counties.
Due to its importance for the development of fruit growing in East Wenatchee and as the first road bridge over the Columbia in the USA, the Columbia River Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 (NRHP #: 82004198), it is today the only truss bridge of this type in Washington.
description
The bridge consists of a 305 m long tanner girder . The outer truss with a length of 122 m each form a boom 73 m to the bank and a 49 m long boom to the middle of the river, between which a 61 m suspension beam is articulated. The truss on the east side has a slope of 6 percent in the direction of the abutment . An 18 m long girder bridge is attached to the horizontal western truss , originally followed by a 172 m long wooden structure as the driveway, which was later replaced by a pedestrian ramp. The roadway was made of wood planks and was 6.2 m wide. Until the beginning of the 1950s, water pipes with a diameter of 1.2 m were mounted on the outside, which were replaced by a larger pipeline within the truss after the road traffic ceased.
See also
Web links
- Wenatchee Bridge (Columbia River Bridge). HistoricBridges.org
- First highway bridge to span Columbia River opens at Wenatchee in 1908. HistoryLink.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Apple Capital Loop Trail. Chelan County PUD. Retrieved September 28, 2017.
- ^ A b Lisa Soderberg: Columbia River Bridge. HAER Inventory, June 1980. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
- ↑ a b Craig E. Holstine, Richard Hobbs: Spanning Washington: Historic Highway Bridges of the Evergreen State. Washington State Univ. Press, 2005, ISBN 0-87422-281-8 , pp. 112-114.
- ^ A b Columbia River Bridge, National Register Information System ID: 82004198, July 16, 1982. NATIONAL REGISTER DIGITAL ASSETS - NPGallery, United State Department of the Interior. Retrieved September 25, 2017.