Save the Fruita Bridge
The Fruita Bridge is 100 years old this year!
It is really in need of support; Your Support!
This three-span, 465 foot long, pinned Parker through truss was started in 1906 and completed in 1907 across the Colorado River, just south of Fruita, Colorado. It is one of only 64 bridges named to the National Register of Historic Places. Not only did it serve as the main roadway south of Fruita until the road was realigned in 1970, it also held the wooden pipeline that carried mountain spring water 23 miles from Glade Park in the Colorado National Monument to the City of Fruita. The original bridge was designed as a oneway automobile or wagon crossing. Prior to this time people and goods could only be ferried across.
100 years on the Colorado River has not been kind to the structure. Since the abandonment in the 70's, the bridge's beams and stringers have suffered fire damage, but the truss is still intact. It is one of the few spans left in the state associated with the engineer M. J. Patterson. Listed under Highway Bridges in Colorado Multiple Property Submission. Currently the bridge piers are being undermined by the spring runoff of the Colorado River.
Bridge as of May, 2009
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I want to help Save the Fruita Bridge!!! Donation: $ ____________ Date ___________ Name__________________________________ Company___________________________ Mailing Address ____________________________________________________ Phone ________________________ Email _______________________________ |
Every dollar counts - Thanks for your support
Send your donation to:
Fruita Historic Preservation
Board
325 East Aspen Avenue
Fruita, CO 81521
Make checks payable to: City of Fruita / Save The Bridge