Stone Quarry Bridge

	Stone Quarry Bridge
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Charleston, Illinois
Coordinates	39°31′16″N 88°6′36″W / 39.52111°N 88.11000°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1883
Built by	King Iron Bridge Co.
Architectural style	double intersection Pratt
MPS	Coles County Highway Bridges Over the Embarras River TR
NRHP reference No.	81000215
Added to NRHP	November 30, 1981

The Stone Quarry Bridge is a historic Pratt truss bridge which carries Township Road 1000N across the Embarras River in Coles County, Illinois, near Charleston, Illinois. The bridge is a double-intersection Pratt truss bridge, a variant of the Pratt truss in which the diagonal supports cross multiple panels; it is the only bridge of its type in the county. It is 180 feet (55 m) long, and its eastern and western portals are 14 feet 10 inches (4.52 m) and 16 feet (4.9 m) high respectively. Built in 1883 by the King Iron Bridge Company, the bridge is the oldest truss bridge in the county as well as the oldest bridge in the county which is still open to traffic.^[2]

It is named for its propinquity to the Charleston Stone Company quarry.^[2]

The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 30, 1981.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b "Stone Quarry Bridge Inventory Form" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 12, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2014.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[ihpa-2] "Stone Quarry Bridge Inventory Form" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 12, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2014.

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