Location Information
(for the Chunky River Bridge #032)
Name:Chunky River Bridge (#032)
Address:Adams Street
City/County:Chunky, Newton County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1911
Registration Information
NR Listing Date:22 Mar 2004
    MPS:Historic Bridges of Mississippi
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Context/Comments
The Chunky River Bridge, built in 1911, is one of the most intact surviving examples in Mississippi of a one-lane Pratt through truss vehicular bridge. Bridges of this type were commonly built on rural roads throughout Mississippi from around 1900 through the 1930s, but surviving examples are now becoming very rare.

This bridge was listed on the National Register on 22 March 2004, as a later addition to the "Historic Bridges of Mississippi," a thematic group nomination prepared in 1988.
Brief Description
Built in 1911, by the Nashville Bridge Company of Nashville, Tennessee, it is a one-lane, single-span Pratt through-truss bridge of steel construction, 100.6 feet in length and 14 feet in width, with a deck surfaced in wooden planking. It is approached at both the north and south ends by elevated roadways with wooden plank decking and low wooden railings.