Divide Creek Bridge, Spanning Divide Creek at Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

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Divide Creek Bridge, Spanning Divide Creek at Going-to-the-Sun Road, West Glacier, Flathead County, MT

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Summary

Significance: The Divide Creek Bridge is one of approximately seventeen prominent masonry and concrete structures on Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park. The 51-mile stretch of scenic road is significant as a unique engineering accomplishment of the early twentieth century, and as the first product of a 1925 cooperative agreement between the National Park Service and the Bureau of Public Roads. The Divide Creek Bridge was unique among structures on the road because it lay halfway out of the park, but otherwise conformed to the specifications that determined the construction of the road.
Survey number: HAER MT-85
Building/structure dates: 1935 Initial Construction

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Lawler Corporation
Bureau of Public Roads
Bennett, Lola, transmitter
Stupich, Martin, photographer
Steen, Kathryn, historian
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Location

West Glacier48.62822, -113.86433
Google Map of 48.6282193, -113.8643329
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Source

Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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