The Purdy Bridge is a continuous reinforced concrete
box girder bridge that spans , with a central span of , between Henderson Bay and
Burley Lagoon
Burley Lagoon is a picturesque watershed located on the Key Peninsula in both Pierce County, Washington and Kitsap County, Washington. The lagoon is part of the Puget Sound. Approximately sixty percent of the lagoon (marine waters) is in Pierce ...
. The bridge connects
Purdy, Washington
Purdy is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place north of the city of Gig Harbor, at the junction of Washington State Routes 16 and 302 on the northern boundary of Pierce County, Washington.
It is located on the shores of ...
with the Purdy Sand Spit Park and
Wauna, Washington
Wauna is a census-designated place in Pierce County, Washington, United States with a 2010 census population of 4,186.
History
Originally platted as Springfield on September 14, 1889, Wauna's name was changed at the government's request, bec ...
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Purdy Bridge was completed on September 29, 1937, at a cost of $62,000, from a design by Homer M. Hadley. It was the first bridge in the United States to utilize a reinforced-concrete box girder design and it was the longest continuous box girder bridge in the United States at the time.
The bridge was added to the
National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
See also
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List of Registered Historic Places in Washington
References
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Bridges completed in 1936
Historic American Engineering Record in Washington (state)
National Register of Historic Places in Pierce County, Washington
Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
Bridges in Pierce County, Washington
Concrete bridges in the United States
Box girder bridges in the United States
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