Rockville Bridge, Utah
Coordinates: 37 ° 9 ′ 30 ″ N , 113 ° 2 ′ 16 ″ W.
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| use | Street ( Bridge Road ) | |
| Crossing of | Virgin River | |
| place | Rockville , Utah | |
| construction | Truss bridge | |
| overall length | 66 m | |
| opening | 1924 | |
| planner | Bureau of Public Roads | |
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The Rockville Bridge is a truss bridge over the Virgin River in Rockville , Utah . The single-lane 66-meter-long bridge was built in 1924 for the National Park Service as part of the creation of a connection between Zion National Park and the northern part of Grand Canyon National Park . Until 1930 it was heavily frequented by tourist traffic, which shifted to this more direct and weather-independent connection with the completion of the Zion-Mount Carmel Highway .
The Parker / Camelback truss bridge was designed by the Bureau of Public Roads and built by the CF Dinsmore Company , with the steel structure supplied by Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Company . It is the only remaining bridge of this type in Utah and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 (NRHP #: 95000982).
Web links
- The Rockville Bridge. Town of Rockville 2017.
- Rockville Bridge, spanning North Fork Virgin River at Rockville cut-off, Rockville, Washington County, UT. Historic American Engineering Record, HAER No. UT-74.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Rockville Bridge. Town of Rockville 2017. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
- ^ Mary Troutman, Coby Jordan: Rockville Bridge - National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. United State Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1995.