“Most Beautifully Balanced and Graceful”: Utah’s Stillman Bridge
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March 24, 2025
“Most Beautifully Balanced and Graceful”: Utah’s Stillman Bridge
While Utah is known for its spectacular natural bridges, our thousands of man-made bridges are not as noteworthy. No Golden Gate Bridge, no Brooklyn Bridge, and no London Bridge. Most Utah bridges do their jobs without much show, carrying traffic over roads, rivers, creeks, washes, and canyons, without travelers even being aware of what they’ve crossed over. Nevertheless, over the
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Highlights with Heidi: Provo River Bridge
This record describes the Provo River Bridge, which was built in 1914 and dismantled in 1941 prior to the filling of the new Deer Creek Reservoir. Heidi discovered this file while searching in Series 920 for a patron. This series contains bridge structural condition files created by the Road Commission to track the condition of bridges on state roads, as well
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