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** That the Broad Street Bridge in Mason is one of only 14 bridges in the state to
receive a Registered Texas Historic Landmark designation?
* That Texas is home to some 50,000 historic bridges?
** That the Waco Suspension Bridge was the first suspension bridge erected in
Texas?
** That the Bluff Dale Bridge is known as a suspension bridge, but it is actually an
example of one of the earliest known cable-stayed bridges in the United States and
the oldest surviving example in Texas?
** That Faust Street Bridge in New Braunfels was opened as a toll-free structure in
late 1887, and that at that time, it was one of the first permanent "toll-free" crossings
completed over a major waterway in Texas?
** That before TxDOT removes old bridges from state highways, county roads, and
city streets, these antique spans are marketed to the public for use at new locations?
** That the Broad Street Bridge, over Comanche Creek in Mason, is the only reinforced
concrete truss bridge in the state and possibly one of only two examples of
this type in the United States?
** That for the construction and installation of bridges, most of the major railroad
lines in Texas had Bridge and Building Departments, or B&B gangs, that traveled
throughout the system to work on major projects?
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