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Wilson River Bridge, Spans Wilson River at U.S. Highway 101, Tillamook, Tillamook County, OR
LocationSpans Wilson River at U.S. Highway 101,
Tillamook, OR
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER OR-39
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-23).
Significance: The Wilson River Bridge at Tillamook is the first reinforced-concrete tied-arch span built in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. In the 1910s, its designer, Conde B. McCullough, worked for the Des Moines, Iowa bridge firm, the Marsh Engineering Company. Its founder James B. Marsh created a patented "rainbow arch" reinforced-concrete bridge, in 1912, which he built all through the states of Kansas and Iowa in the early twentieth century. The success of the Marsh version of the reinforced-concrete tied-arch, using angle steel and concrete, may have influenced C.B. McCullough in his decision to use this form at the Wilson river and shortly thereafter, nearly identical structures over Ten Mile Creek and Big Creek in Lane County, Oregon. McCullough differed from Marsh in that he used reinforcing bar instead of steel plate in his arches. He also created the first reinforced-concrete tied-arch bridges in the Pacific Northwest, the region of the United States that includes western Montana, northern Idaho, Washington and Oregon.
Subjects
Concrete Arch BridgesVehicular Bridges
Related Names
Schwab, Leslie, Photographer
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. South portal, looking north
2. Bridge plate, southeast abutment
3. Perspective view below deck
4. North portal, looking south
5. Elevation from east
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