State Highway 78 Bridge at the Red River

OK 78, across the Red River at the OK-TX state line, Ravenna, Texas. County/parish: Fannin.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 20, 1996. NRIS 96001517.

1 contributing structure.

Also known as:

  • FN0279-02-024

From Wikipedia:

State Highway 78 Bridge at the Red River

The Highway 78 Bridge at the Red River is an eight-span through truss bridge over the Red River between Oklahoma and Texas on Oklahoma State Highway 78/Texas State Highway 78. It was built as a federal relief project during the Great Depression as part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Today the bridge and the area retain the look and feel of the time of its construction. As part of Highway 78 the bridge's average daily traffic (as of 2006) was 1,700 cars per day.

The original bridge was demolished after flood damage and a new bridge built in 2018

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969144

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