.04 mi SW of Powell on Cowan Ridge Rd off HWY E, Powell, Missouri. County/parish: McDonald.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 20, 2011. NRIS 11000215.
1 contributing structure.Also known as:
The Powell Bridge is a National Register of Historic Places site that crosses Big Sugar Creek near the community of Powell, Missouri, a rural hamlet in McDonald County, Missouri in the Ozark Mountains region. The bridge was built by the East St. Louis Bridge Co. and was opened to traffic on August 16, 1915. The single-lane pin-connected Pratt through truss was open to vehicular traffic from 1915 until a new two-lane bridge was built and opened beside it in 2015. It is currently owned by the Powell Historic Preservation Society and is one of three sites in McDonald County on the National Register of Historic Places, which also includes the Old McDonald County Courthouse. The community of Powell itself is best known as the home of famed gospel writer Albert E. Brumley.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63819737