CHOCTAW CREEK BRIDGE HAER No. TX-85
Suspension (Old Swinging Bridge) Bridge
Located North of Choctaw Creek on new Highway 82, Spanning
Choctaw Creek, Bells vicinity, Grayson County, Texas.

   UTM: 14/733610/3726095 USGS Quad: Ambrose, Tex. (7.5-minute series, 1984). The Choctaw Creek Bridge is a parabolic suspension bridge with a main-span approximately 120' long and a roadway 10'-3" wide. Date of construction ca. 1915.

Fabricator: William H. C. Greer, Sherman, Tx.

Present use: Abandon and not accessible to the public.

 

    
Significance: The Choctaw Creek Bridge is the only known surviving example of a Greer patent suspension bridge. It is also part of a much larger population of suspension bridges that once existed throughout north central Texas.

Historian: Mark M. Brown, Ph.D., August 2000.

  

   

 

 

Project Information: This document was prepared as a part of the Texas Historic Bridges Recording Project II performed during the summer of 2000 by the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER). The project was sponsored by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), Environmental Affairs Division. The Original drawings, photographs and histories will become part of HAER's State of Texas Collection at the Library of Congress. The documentation will eventually become part of the National Digital Library, American Memory, available through the Library's web site: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/.