Bridge No: 4240005600100

Asset ID: 455

County: Spartanburg

Bridge Name:

Facility Carried: SC 56

Feature Intersected: Tyger River

Year Built: 1930

Year Reconstructed:

Main Structure Type: T beam

Design:

Main Material: Reinforced Concrete

Railing Type: 2 rail high concrete railings

Number of Main Spans: 10

Number of Approach Spans:

Approach Type:

Structure Length: 375 feet

Structure Width: 22.2 feet

Setting: The bridge carries a 2 lane state highway over a stream in a wooded rural setting.

The high, 10-span, 375'-long T beam bridge has maximum span length of 50'. The beams are haunched at the bearings. The bridge has a high vertical profile over the river and is supported on tall, 2-column reinforced concrete bents with partial webwalls. It is finished with standard design two rail high on brush curbs railings.

The 1930 T beam bridge was determined to be "select" in the 1991 bridge survey. The state highway department adopted a standardized design for T beam bridges in the late 1910s and early 1920s, and they built hundreds of them in the 1920s and 1930s. Most of the earlier examples that survive have been altered by widening. There are over 700 pre-1961 T beam bridges in the state.