Historical MarkerPratt Truss Bridge
Deer Park · Harris County · Dedicated 1997 · THC Atlas #5201011958
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Marker Inscription
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)
About this site
Pratt Truss Bridge is a historical marker in Deer Park, Harris County, dedicated in 1997. It is one of 422 historical markers documented in Harris County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 849 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 29.6964, -95.1370 near Deer Park. The nearest cataloged historic site is Deer Park (historical marker), about 0.8 miles away. Others within a short drive include JACKSON-WILSON, Texas Chiropractic College, and Grandview Memorial Park.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5201011958. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
