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General Information

Other name(s): Manning-Rye Bridge; Curtis Lowe Bridge; Manning Bridge; Palouse River Bridge; Colfax Bridge
Status: destroyed

Project Type

Structure: Covered bridge
Through truss bridge
Howe type truss bridge
Support conditions:
Function / usage: original use:
Railroad (railway) bridge
current use:
Road bridge
Material: Timber bridge
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Location

Location: , , ,
Location description:

Spanning Palouse River

Coordinates: 46° 55' 42.16" N    117° 24' 55.06" W
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Technical Information

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Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Manning-Rye Covered Bridge, spanning the Palouse River near Colfax, Washington, was built around 1918. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It has also been known as the Harpole Bridge.

It was a work of the Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad, an interurban electric railroad.

Its "timber housing protects a single span timber Howe truss which rests on timber pile abutments, encased with timber cribs." Although it is deemed a covered bridge, the top of the bridge was left uncovered to allow for connection between the locomotive and the overhead electric lines.

The bridge came into ownership of the Great Northern Railroad, and was used as a railroad bridge until 1967. It was purchased in 1969 by a private owner who replaced rails by wooden planking and used it for automobile access to their property.

It was located one mile from County Route 4, in the vicinity of Colfax, in Whitman County, Washington.

The bridge was destroyed on September 7, 2020, by the Manning Fire, a wildfire that was started by a downed electric transmission line.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Manning-Rye Covered Bridge" and modified on 2 December 2021 according to the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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  • About this
    data sheet
  • Structure-ID
    20052158
  • Published on:
    16/01/2010
  • Last updated on:
    02/12/2021
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