Eagle Scout Bridge

Route 2

Built: 1914

Robert W. Hadlow, Columbia River Highway Historic District, National Historic Landmark Nomination

NCS3. Structure: Bridge west of Oneonta Gorge Creek

Location: HMP 33

Date: c. 1980

Designer: Unknown

Builder: Unknown

Owner: Oregon Department of Transportation

Historically, there has been a structure at this crossing of an unnamed creek since the CRH’s construction. The present masonry parapet walls on this small span date from the early 1980s, and represent an unsuccessful attempt to “restore” this bridge in the highway’s style.

Hadlow, Landmark Nomination, 22

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Comment by Kirk J. Poole, May 2, 2020:

This was a boy scout troop project. I remember watching them build it. It took them a month. Year was 1979. I remember bitching about the parapets being entirely odd looking. I was there! I think it was an Eagle Scout project.

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