{"nrhp_refnum":"07000351","name":"Southern Railway Company Overhead Bridge","other_names":["North Carolina Bridge #220426"],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Spanning the double tracks on the Norfolk Southern RR bet. Battleground and Railroad Aves., 1/2 blk N of King St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kings Mountain","county":"Cleveland County","state":"NC","lat":35.241623581000056,"lon":-81.34447734899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-04-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Engineering","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A reinforced concrete tee-beam vehicular overhead bridge carrying Battleground and Railroad Avenues across the paired tracks of the Norfolk Southern main line in a railway cut in Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was erected in 1919.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the bridge is significant for its association with the second-tracking of the Southern Railway main line between Washington and Atlanta, a major transportation project of the early twentieth century. It also argues the bridge is significant as one of the oldest surviving tee-beam bridges in North Carolina, and as one of the few remaining in nearly unaltered condition.","narrative":"Built in 1919 of reinforced concrete, the bridge carries two traffic lanes over a railway cut in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, though it is effectively used as a single lane. It has three spans of concrete tee-beams on two interior bents, with three-rail pipe railings set on concrete posts. The bridge replaced a late-nineteenth-century wood trestle when the Southern Railway main line through the town was double-tracked. That project, begun in 1901 and completed in 1919, was one of the largest rail improvement programs in the country at the time. The nomination regards the bridge as one of the oldest tee-beam bridges in the state and one of only two Southern Railway tee-beam bridges that survive virtually unaltered. Its design is also linked to later state highway bridge practice.","period_of_significance":"1919","architect_builder":"Southern Railway, Office of the District Engineer, Charlotte","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.911283-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/82/7196/47719682/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/07000351.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000351/553fc1d512-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000351/553fc1d512-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southern_Railway_Overhead_Bridge.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southern_Railway_Overhead_Bridge.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"01000513","name":"Central School Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/central-school-historic-district-01000513/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719682","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Railway_Company_Overhead_Bridge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18155385"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cleveland-county/southern-railway-company-overhead-bridge-07000351/"}