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Title	Construction of the Shelby Street Bridge, 1908 August 25
Corporate name	Foster & Creighton Company Nashville Bridge Company
Topical entry	Bridges--Tennessee--Nashville Building construction--Tennessee--Nashville Business enterprises--Tennessee--Nashville Industries--Tennessee--Nashville Steel industry and trade--Tennessee--Nashville Central business districts--Tennessee--Nashville Transportation--Tennessee--Nashville Rivers--Tennessee--Nashville Pedestrian bridges--Tennessee--Nashville
Geographic entry	Nashville (Tenn.)--History--Sources Nashville and Davidson County (Tenn.)--History--Sources Nashville (Tenn.)--Social life and customs Nashville (Tenn.)--Buildings, structures, etc. Cumberland river (Ky. and Tenn.) Sparkman Street Bridge (Nashville, Tenn.) Shelby Street Bridge (Nashville, Tenn.)
Description	A view of the construction of the Sparkman Street Bridge, later renamed Shelby Street Bridge, built along the Cumberland River in downtown Nashville. The original official name of the bridge was the Broadway Bridge. The bridge was completed in 1909, spanning the Cumberland River to link East Nashville to the downtown area. The construction of this bridge was considered very innovative, with concrete trusses making a new underneath support system. The Nashville Bridge Company was on the east side of the river. The Foster & Creighton Company were the contractors for the bridge (specifically Foster-Creighton-Gould Company), a family-owned construction company founded in Nashville circa 1885 by Wilbur Fisk Foster and Robert T. Creighton. In 1986, the bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In 2003, the bridge reopened as a pedestrian walkway. The bridge was the first one in North America to have concrete arched trusses. Howard M. Jones, a railroad engineer, was employed by the county as its designer. These digital reproductions were scanned from the original family scrapbook album belonging to Charles W. Cook, Jr. 1 digital photograph.
Publisher	Metropolitan Nashville/Davidson County Archives, Nashville Public Library
Contributors	Cook, Charles W., Jr. (Donor)
Date	1908-08-25
Type	Still Image; Photographs
Format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Sparkman88
Relation	Charles W. Cook, Jr. Digital Images Collection
Coverage	1900-1909
Rights	U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital content, which is provided for educational purposes only and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or distributed for any other purpose without written permission. Please contact the Metro Archives, Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219. Telephone (615) 862-5880.
Location	Closed Stacks, Metro Archives RG3