The Milltown Bridge is a historic stone

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in rural southeastern

Sebastian County, Arkansas Sebastian County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 125,744, making it the fourth-most populous county in Arkansas. The county has two county seats, Greenwood and Fort Smith. Sebastian ...

. The bridge carries County Road 77 across an unnamed brook just west of its junction with White Mountain Road. It is a two-span

closed spandrel An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its loads partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at either side. A viaduct ( ...

structure, with each arch spanning and a total length of . The arches are formed out of rough-cut stone

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s. It was built in the 1930s with funding from the

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, and was, when listed on the

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in 1990, one of only eight documented bridges of its type in the state.

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* Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Historic American Engineering Record in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Sebastian County, Arkansas Stone arch bridges in the United States Works Progress Administration in Arkansas Transportation in Sebastian County, Arkansas {{SebastianCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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