Rattlesnake Creek Bridge
National Register of Historic Places

Rattlesnake Creek Bridge

Bancroft, Cuming County, Nebraska
Listed
June 28, 1992
Type
Structure
Period
Civil War
Ref No.
92000743

About this property

The Rattlesnake Creek Bridge brings a Cuming County, Nebraska county road over Rattlesnake Creek, 2.8 miles northwest of Bancroft. It was built in 1903 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It is a steel Pratt half-hip pony truss bridge, and the oldest known example of this type designed by the Standard Bridge Company of Omaha and built throughout eastern Nebraska. The bridge is 92 feet (28 m) long in total, with a single span of 60 feet (18 m) and a roadway width of 15.7 feet (4.8 m). It was one of 60 new or rebuilt bridges in a bridge-building program started in 1903 by Cuming County. The Standard Bridge Company had an annual contract with Cuming, Wayne, Thurston, Stanton, Dodge and Burt counties and built hundreds of half-hip truss bridges during 1900–1920; this one is the oldest documented example. In 2019, the bridge was relocated to a hiking trail housed in a West Point, Nebraska nature park, where it remains in use today by foot and bike traffic. Previously, the intact bridge was placed in a field in rural Cuming County unused.

Location

Bancroft, Cuming County, Nebraska
42.04432, -96.61355

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When was Rattlesnake Creek Bridge listed on the National Register?

Rattlesnake Creek Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 28, 1992.

What type of historic resource is Rattlesnake Creek Bridge?

Rattlesnake Creek Bridge is classified as a structure in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Rattlesnake Creek Bridge is recorded as the civil_war era, specifically around 1903.

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