Powell Bridge
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| Location | 0.4 miles (0.64 km) southwest of Powell on Cowan Ridge Rd. off Highway E, near Powell, Missouri |
| Coordinates | 36°36′58″N 94°10′56″W / 36.61611°N 94.18222°WCoordinates: 36°36′58″N 94°10′56″W / 36.61611°N 94.18222°W |
| Built | 1914-1915 |
| Architect | East St. Louis Bridge Co. |
| Architectural style | Pin-connected Pratt through truss bridge |
| NRHP Reference # | 11000215 |
| Added to NRHP | April 20, 2011 |
| Carries | Single lane |
| Crosses | Big Sugar Creek |
| Locale | Powell, Missouri |
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| Design | Pin-connected Pratt through truss bridge |
| Total length | 210 feet (64 m) |
| Width | 12 feet (4 m) |
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| Designer | East St. Louis Bridge Co. |
| Construction start | 1914 |
| Opened | 1915 |
| Closed | To auto traffic 2014 |
36°36′58″N 94°10′56″W / 36.61611°N 94.18222°W
The Powell Bridge is a National Register of Historic Places site that crosses Big Sugar Creek near the community of Powell, Missouri, a rural hamlet in McDonald County, Missouri in the Ozark Mountains region. The bridge was built by the East St. Louis Bridge Co. and was opened to traffic on August 16, 1915. The single-lane pin-connected Pratt through truss was open to vehicular traffic from 1915 until a new two-lane bridge was built and opened beside it in 2015. It is currently owned by the Powell Historic Preservation Society and is limited to pedestrian traffic and is one of three sites in McDonald County on the National Register of Historic Places, which also includes the Old McDonald County Courthouse. The community of Powell itself is best known as the home of famed gospel writer Albert E. Brumley.
The Powell Bridge consists of a 140’ 8-panel pin-connected Pratt through truss main span of wrought iron with a square arch and 70’ 4-panel pin-connected Pratt pony truss approach span, which equals a total bridge length of more than 210 feet. It was constructed to have a 12’ wide roadway. The substructure includes concrete abutments, wing walls and a pier cap reinforced with steel plate. The floor/decking is timber deck over steel stringers. The bridge has both a through and a pony configuration. Traffic travels through the Pratt truss of the superstructure which is cross-braced above and below the traffic and also through the pony truss, which are parallel superstructures which are not cross-braced at the top. It is one of only two bridges of this style built in McDonald County, the other was constructed in Anderson, Missouri and has since been demolished.
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