Photos
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Overview Photos taken by Nathan Culpepper |
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Deck view |
Facts
- Overview
- Stearns through truss bridge over Chunky River on Stuckey Bridge Road
- Location
- Lauderdale County, Mississippi
- Status
- Open to one-lane traffic
- History
- Built 1901 by the Virginia Bridge & Iron Co.
- Builder
- - Virginia Bridge & Iron Co.
- Design
- Stearns through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 109.9 ft.
Total length: 199.1 ft.
Deck width: 12.1 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 1988
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +32.25583, -88.85522 (decimal degrees)
32°15'21" N, 88°51'19" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Land survey
- T. 05 N., R. 14 E., Sec. 22
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 88002415 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 22891 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 02/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 11.7 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2004)
- 110
Comments
There is a sign at the end of the road that says "Bridge Closed". When you get to it there are gates at the end of the bridge but they were open and cars were still driving over it.
There was a fish camp on the river. It had a screened in area with picnic tables, and juke box. Running Bear.
There was an artesian well in a small field of wild flower's, butterflies, fireflies in the tall grasses. The owners had a monkey that lived in the huge old oaks.I could run and play with the monkey up in the trees and the camps bird dog.
All the Bryant family, aunt's, uncle's, cousin's, grandparent's would go there on a Friday or Saturday late evening. Everything was so green, hot, the sun setting. The sounds of the river down below rippling over river stones. The birds singing a night song.
They always made me eat white bread so it would catch any fish bones. Yuck!!
Menu was, fish, hush puppies, slaw, beans, and colder than cold 6oz cokes.
You could hear the cars go over the bridge, the boards bumping on the deck, sometimes the bridge shaking.
Who needs Disneyland?
This place was like heaven.
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i went to stuckey's bridge friday night (November 9 at like 11 pm) and nothing happened. i was at a birthday party and her mom scared us really bad by getting 2 people to scare us... other than that nothing happened. when i heard about it i didnt want to go but i went with them and nothing happened. its stupid so if you think its haunted then go and see if you die cause he might have been hung on the bridge but there is no such things as ghosts... so STOP thinking there is!! i get scared at stuff like that but im not thinking... here's some things you can think about...
1. there's no such thing as ghosts
2. God is always with you whether you die or not
This is a later version of an earlier bridge
how could stuckey of died on this bridge in the 1800's if it was built in 1901??