Homestead High Level Bridge

1938-01-05

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Homestead High Level Bridge
  • Title
  • Homestead High Level Bridge
  • Creator
  • Allegheny County
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B009.F34.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B009.F34.I01
  • Description
  • The four-lane Homestead High Level Bridge, built and owned by Allegheny County, was constructed in 1937 at a cost of $2.8 million. The bridge replaced the old Brown’s Bridge or Homestead and Highland Bridge. The Homestead High Level Bridge was the first to use the unusual “Wichert Self-Adjusting Truss.” The total length of the main span is about 516 feet and the height of the deck is 109.3 feet at the center line of the channel span. On July 12, 2003, the bridge was renamed the Homestead Grays Bridge in honor of the Negro League baseball team that played during the 1920s through the 1950s.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Homestead High Level Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Homestead Grays Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Bridges--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Homestead (Pa.)
    Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.)
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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