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Photo, Print, Drawing Florida East Coast Railway, Eau Gallie River Bridge, Spans Eau Gallie River at milepost 190.47, Melbourne, Brevard County, FL

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[ Photos from Survey HAER FL-39-B  ]

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[ Drawings from Survey HAER FL-39-B  ]
[ Data Pages from Survey HAER FL-39-B  ]
[ Photo Captions from Survey HAER FL-39-B  ]

About this Item

Title

  • Florida East Coast Railway, Eau Gallie River Bridge, Spans Eau Gallie River at milepost 190.47, Melbourne, Brevard County, FL

Names

  • Historic American Engineering Record, creator
  • Florida East Coast Railway
  • Union Bridge & Construction Company
  • Virginia Bridge & Iron Company
  • Flagler, Henry Morrison
  • Jacksonville, St. Augustine, and Indian River Railway
  • U.S. Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), sponsor
  • All Aboard Florida - Operations, LLC, sponsor
  • Janus Research, contractor
  • Waldroop, Lauren, historian
  • Stearns, Dylan, historian
  • Streelman, Amy, historian
  • Waldroop, Lauren, photographer
  • Finch, Carter, photographer
  • White, Daniel, photographer
  • Stearns, Dylan, photographer
  • McPartland, Mary, transmitter

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 1968

Headings

  • -  transportation
  • -  railroad bridges
  • -  steel girder bridges
  • -  Florida--Brevard County--Melbourne

Latitude / Longitude

  • 28.124002,-80.633854

Notes

  • -  Significance: The Eau Gallie River Bridge is located in the City of Melbourne, just west of US-1/N Harbor City Boulevard. The bridge was first documented in 2013 as part of the field survey for the Cultural Resource Assessment Report for the All Aboard Florida Passenger Rail Project from Orlando to West Palm Beach prepared by Janus Research for All Aboard Florida Operations, LLC. The Eau Gallie River Bridge falls under the F.3 property type outlined in Florida's Historic Railroad Resources. As per this document, in order for railroad structures, such as bridges, to be individually eligible for nomination they must be "exceptional examples of a type of architecture or engineering...[and] retain their original appearance to a high degree." The Eau Gallie River bridge is an exceptional example of a deck plate girder bridge and retains a high degree of historic integrity. While the western tracks along the Eau Gallie River Bridge have been removed, the eastern tracks remain and this alteration does not detract from the bridge's historic appearance. A preliminary assessment of the Eau Gallie Bridge and twenty-one other bridges along the FEC mainline between Jacksonville and West Palm Beach was conducted as part of the 2010 FEC Amtrak Passenger Rail Study Environmental Assessment, Duval to Miami-Dade Counties, Florida conducted by Janus Research and Panamerican Consultants for the Florida Department of Transportation, District 4. Of those bridges surveyed three were designed as deck plate girder bridges on a steel piers substructure with concrete footings and cross bents: Eau Gallie River Bridge, Crane Creek Bridge, and Sebastian River Bridge. These bridges each spanned several hundred feet and were the only fixed bridges surveyed to be that long. Other bridges surveyed that were 550' or longer contained moveable portions, such as a bascule. The remaining fixed bridges in the survey were 300' or less in length and had more common designs. The Eau Gallie River Bridge was considered eligible for listing in the National Register as part of this study due to the large distance the fixed bridge spans over a body of water. The bridge was determined to be individually eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (National Register) by the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) in 2013 under Criterion C in the area of Engineering as an example of a deck plate girder bridge that spans a substantial distance and retains its historic physical integrity. Additionally, the Eau Gallie River Bridge is a contributing resource to the FEC Railway as a linear historic district, which was determined eligible for inclusion in the National Register by the SHPO under Criterion A in the areas of Transportation and Community Planning and Development due to significance related to the development of Florida's east coast.
  • -  Survey number: HAER FL-39-B
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1926 Initial Construction

Medium

  • Photo(s): 23
  • Measured Drawing(s): 12
  • Data Page(s): 14
  • Photo Caption Page(s): 3

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HAER FL-39-B

Source Collection

  • Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

Repository

Control Number

  • fl0920

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

Rights & Access

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  • Call Number: HAER FL-39-B
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Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, Florida East Coast Railway, Union Bridge & Construction Company, Virginia Bridge & Iron Company, Henry Morrison Flagler, St. Augustine Jacksonville, Sponsor U.S. Federal Railroad Administration, et al., Waldroop, Lauren, Carter Finch, Daniel White, and Dylan Stearns, photographer. Florida East Coast Railway, Eau Gallie River Bridge, Spans Eau Gallie River at milepost 190.47, Melbourne, Brevard County, FL. Brevard County Melbourne Florida, 1968. translateds by Mcpartland, Marymitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/fl0920/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Engineering Record, C., Florida East Coast Railway, Union Bridge & Construction Company, Virginia Bridge & Iron Company, Flagler, H. M., Jacksonville, S. A. [...] Streelman, A., Waldroop, L., Finch, C., White, D. & Stearns, D., photographer. (1968) Florida East Coast Railway, Eau Gallie River Bridge, Spans Eau Gallie River at milepost 190.47, Melbourne, Brevard County, FL. Brevard County Melbourne Florida, 1968. McPartland, M., trans Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/fl0920/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, et al., photographers by Waldroop, Lauren, et al. Florida East Coast Railway, Eau Gallie River Bridge, Spans Eau Gallie River at milepost 190.47, Melbourne, Brevard County, FL. trans by Mcpartland, Marymitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/fl0920/>.