Scuppernong River Bridge | |
Location: | US 64 Bus. across the Scuppernong R., Columbia, North Carolina |
Coordinates: | 35.9172°N -76.2553°W |
Builder: | NC State Highway Commission |
Architecture: | Warren ponytruss swing span |
Added: | March 5, 1992 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 92000078 |
Scuppernong River Bridge, also known as the Main Street Bridge, Tyrrell County No. 4 Bridge, and Columbia Bridge, is a historic bridge located at Columbia, Tyrrell County, North Carolina. It was built in 1926, and is a 566-foot-long, two-lane bridge. Spanning the Scuppernong River, it consists of a steel Warren-type pony truss swing span measuring 123 feet long, and 22 concrete pile-supported timber approach spans. It is the only manually-operated pony truss swing-span bridge remaining in North Carolina.[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.