Location Information
(for the Youngblood Suspension Bridge)
Name:Youngblood Suspension Bridge
City/County:Union Church vic., Jefferson County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1900, 1915
Destroyed:collapsed by 2016
Registration Information
NR Listing Date:23 May 1979
    MPS:Swinging Suspension Bridges of Mississippi
View National Register Nomination Form
Mississippi Landmark Information
Designated:05-30-1989
Recorded:06-29-1989
Book/Vol. No.:V. 6-Y, p. 374
Context/Comments
This narrow, wooden-deck suspension bridge, originally built in 1900 and repaired or rebuilt in 1915, was a rare surviving example of a type of vehicular bridge built on some rural roads in Mississippi in the early twentieth century.

It was listed on the National Register in 1979 as a component of the "Swinging Suspension Bridges in Mississippi" Multiple Property Submission. It was designated a Mississippi Landmark on 30 May 1989. It had collapsed by 2016. (R.C., 2021)