The Cache River Bridge is a Parker

pony truss A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements, usually forming triangular units. The connected elements (typically straight) may be stressed from tension, compression, or s ...

that spans the Cache River between Walnut Ridge and

Paragould, Arkansas Paragould is the county seat of Greene County, and the 19th-largest city in Arkansas, in the United States. The city is located in northeastern Arkansas on the eastern edge of Crowley's Ridge, a geologic anomaly contained within the Arkansas delta ...

. It was built in 1934 by the

Arkansas State Highway Commission The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT), formerly the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department, is a government department in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Its mission is to provide a safe, efficient, aesthetically pleasing and en ...

and was designed by the

Vincennes Bridge Company The Vincennes Bridge Company, based in Vincennes, Indiana, was a designer and builder of bridges that was "one of Indiana's 'most successful bridge-building firms'". It was founded by three schoolteachers in 1898. The firm produced more than 1200 ...

. Formerly carrying

U.S. Route 412 U.S. Route 412 is an east–west United States highway, first commissioned in 1982. U.S. 412 overlaps expressway-grade Cimarron Turnpike from Tulsa west to Interstate 35 and the Cherokee Turnpike from east of Chouteau, Oklahoma, to west of the ...

and earlier

Arkansas Highway 25 Arkansas Highway 25 is a northeast–southwest state highway in north central Arkansas. The route runs from US 64 in Conway to US 63/412 in Black Rock through Greers Ferry, Batesville, and the foothills of The Ozarks. Route description AR ...

, the structure was added to the

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in 1990, and was bypassed by a new bridge in 1995.

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At construction the bridge carried

over the Cache River in 1934. Highway 25 was replaced by

in the area in 1982. The Cache River Bridge was replaced in 1995 with the new four-lane bridge being built adjacent to the north.

Description

Overall, the Cache River Bridge is in length, and the bridge's main span is in length and in width. Built at a 45-degree skew, the bridge's only span is rivet-connected and consists of 11 panels. The bridge is an excellent example of the Vincennes Bridge Company's later work, in contrast to the

War Eagle Bridge The War Eagle Bridge is a historic bridge in War Eagle, Arkansas, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Description The one-lane steel truss bridge is located on War Eagle Road (County Road 98), passing over t ...

Northwest Arkansas Northwest Arkansas (NWA) is a metropolitan area and region in Arkansas within the Ozark Mountains. It includes four of the ten largest cities in the state: Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers, and Bentonville, the surrounding towns of Benton an ...

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