St. Francis River Bridge (Lake City, Arkansas)

St. Francis River Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	AR 18, over the St. Francis River, Lake City, Arkansas
Coordinates	35°49′14″N 90°25′58″W / 35.82056°N 90.43278°WCoordinates: 35°49′14″N 90°25′58″W / 35.82056°N 90.43278°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1934
Architectural style	I-Beam vertical lift
MPS	Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
NRHP Reference #	90000515[1]
Added to NRHP	April 9, 1990

The St. Francis River Bridge, also known as the Lake City Bridge, was a historic bridge spanning the St. Francis River at Lake City, Arkansas. It was composed of 109 I-beam trestles and a single vertical lift span, and had a total length of 3,412 feet (1,040 m). The bridge was designed and built in 1934 by the Vincennes Bridge Company,^[2] and carried Arkansas Highway 18 until 1998, when a modern 4-span I-beam bridge was built adjacent to it. The old bridge was dismantled, leaving only the vertical lift segment on the east bank of the river.^[3]

The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.^[1]

Read article written about the bridge by the National Park Service: https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/ar/ar0000/ar0076/data/ar0076data.pdf

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Craighead County, Arkansas
• List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas

References

1. National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. "NRHP nomination for St. Francis River Bridge" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
3. "Lake City Bridge". Bridgehunter.com. Retrieved 2014-12-13.

https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/ar/ar0000/ar0076/data/ar0076data.pdf