Half Chance Iron Bridge

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name = Half Chance Iron Bridge Half-Chance Bridge
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caption =The Half Chance Iron Bridge over Chickasaw Bogue Creek.
locmapin = Alabama
lat_degrees = 32
lat_minutes = 18
lat_seconds = 51.59
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 87
long_minutes = 42
long_seconds = 13.57
long_direction = W
location = Marengo County, Alabama
nearest_city = Dayton, Alabama
area =
built = 1880
architect =King Iron Bridge Manufacturing Company
architecture =
designated =
added = 14 September 1972cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-03-05|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
established =
visitation_num =
visitation_year =
refnum = 72000166cite web|title="Alabama: Marengo County "|work="Nationalhistoricalregister.com"
url=http://www.nationalhistoricalregister.com/al/marengo/state.html|accessdate=2008-03-05]
mpsub =
governing_body = The Half Chance Iron Bridge, also known as the Half-Chance Bridge, is a historic single span wrought iron bridge located near the small community of Half Chance, between the towns of Linden and Dayton in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is on Marengo County Road 39 over Chickasaw Bogue Creek. The bridge is the oldest surviving iron bridge in Alabama, making it an important transportation and engineering landmark for the state.cite web|title="Marengo County"|work="Alabama's Front Porches"|url=http://www.alabamasfrontporches.com/counties/marengo.htm|accessdate=2008-03-05]

Half Chance Iron Bridge is a convert|12|ft|m|adj=on wide bowstring truss with a span of convert|100|ft|m. It was built by the King Iron Bridge Manufacturing Company of Cleveland, Ohio in 1880. King Iron Bridge Manufacturing Company was founded in 1871 by Zenas King. As early as 1878 it was manufacturing many types of truss, combination, and wooden bridges and by the 1880s it was the largest highway bridge works in the United States.cite web|title="King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Company"|work="The Cleveland Memory Project"| url=http://www.clevelandmemory.org/king/|accessdate=2008-03-05]

ee also

*National Register of Historic Places listings in Marengo County, Alabama

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