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Barton Creek Bridge is an early example of a
cable stayed bridge A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, normally forming a fan-like pattern o ...
; it spans
Barton Creek Barton Creek is a tributary that feeds the Colorado River as it flows through the Texas Hill Country. The creek passes through some of the more scenic areas in Greater Austin, surrounded in many parts by a greenbelt of protected lands that ser ...
in Huckabay, Texas. Built 1890 by Runyon Bridge Company, it was bypassed and abandoned in the 1930s and now lies in ruins. The bridge was brought to the attention of the
Historic American Engineering Record Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP) is a division of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS). It administers three programs established to document historic places in the United States: Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American E ...
in 2000, when it was found to bear a striking resemblance to the
Bluff Dale Suspension Bridge The Bluff Dale Bridge is a historic cable-stayed bridge (not a suspension bridge) located near Bluff Dale, Texas, United States. Built in 1891, the bridge spans across the Paluxy River. The road deck is above the river and held in place by fou ...
, which had at the time, been considered the only example of a Runyon patent cable-stayed bridge. It has a total length of , with the main span being .


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List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Texas A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...


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* Bridges in Texas Cable-stayed bridges in the United States Historic American Engineering Record in Texas 1890 establishments in Texas {{Texas-bridge-struct-stub