Old Byram and Florence Rd., Bryam, Mississippi. County/parish: Hinds.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 23, 1979. NRIS 79003427.
Part of Swinging Suspension Bridges TR (NRIS 64000423).
1 contributing structure.
The Byram Bridge, spanning the Pearl River between Hinds County, Mississippi and Rankin County, Mississippi, is a historic bridge which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The bridge was built in 1905 as a collaboration between merchants in Byram, Mississippi and Rankin County. In 1987, the bridge was deemed unsafe for travel and was closed to traffic. The bridge was converted to a pedestrian footbridge in 2015.
It is located at Old Byram and Florence Rd. near Frenchs Store, Mississippi.
It is a swinging suspension bridge type of suspension bridge, with two towers, nearly 360 feet (110 m) in total length. The central span is about 200 feet (61 m).
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/73889978