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Flat Creek, Pettis County

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Inventory Number: MO/25-80-01x
County: Pettis County
Township:
Town/Village: Sedalia
Bridge Name: Flat Creek
Crosses: Flat Creek
Truss type: Howe
Spans: 1
Length: 110'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1880
Builder: Nicholas Hall & M. L. Carter
When Lost: 29 May 1966
Cause: Burned
Latitude: N38 39.850
Longitude: W093 13.327
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Directions: On Ingram Avenue near Sedalia.

Flat Creek Bridge, Sedalia, Pettis County, MO Built 1880 Burned 29 May 1966
Todd Clark Collection

Flat Creek Bridge, Sedalia, Pettis County, MO Built 1880 Burned 29 May 1966
Richard E. Roy Collection, NSPCB Archives

Comments:
This bridge was built in 1880 at a cost of $4,000. Nicholas Hall was contracted for the masonary and M.L.Carter for the superstructure. An alarm was sounded at 4am on Sunday, May 29, 1966 although the bridge was already “burning swiftly”. Arson was suspected. A scale-model replica of this bridge has been built in Sedalia's Centennial Park.

Sources:
Missouri Historical Review, Volume LXI, number 2, January 1967, page 234
Connecticut River Valley Covered Bridge Society. Bulletin, Volume XIII, no. 1, Summer 1966, page 6

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