However, according toĮdwin Green, “The bridge authorized by this last Act was never built, so far as Request was granted by an act passed on December 21, 1798. The two-year rebuilding time period allowed by the 1791 act had elapsed. Hampton petitioned the legislature for the right to rebuild his bridge since
Moore wrote that Wade Hampton built four bridges over the Congaree during theġ790s that were all destroyed by flooding, but he did not cite the source of The Daily Phoenix and was printed in that newspaper on July 10, 1867. It was part of a letter sent to the editor of Has compiled a large amount of information on the history of the Broad RiverĪttributed to a student who attended South Carolina College when there was noīridge over the Congaree River. Over the Broad and Saluda Rivers at or near Columbia are beyond the intended The histories of railroad bridges and bridges $80,000, which would be equivalent to just over $2 million in 2019.ĭiscusses non-railroad bridges over the Congaree River at Columbia, SC. ThisĬovering was not there when the bridge opened for traffic and was added in The wooden plank roadway stood 37 feet above the normalĭesign called for the bridge to be covered with a roof and weatherboard Truss design and, according to the Columbia Telescope, was built “of wood from The ten-span superstructure was an overhead Of granite from local quarries and were 33 feet wide and 12 feet thick at theīase while narrowing to ten feet thickness at the top.
LOTS OF SNAKES CONGEREE RIVER PLUS
The structure had nine masonry piers in the river plus stone abutments on the Street and crossed the Congaree River where it is approximately 1,400 feet wide.
The bridge was erected at the foot of Gervais It was opened for traffic on April 4, 1827, within the four years Briggs was also contracted to build the bridge and construction began that March of 1824 and was immediately approved by the officers of the bridgeĬompany. Went straight to work, hiring William Briggs to design a plan for the
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