Kentucky Route 2014 Bridge

The Kentucky Route 2014 Bridge along Kentucky Route 2014 in Bell County, Kentucky is a wood bridge near Pineville, Kentucky. The bridge is 328ft long. The bridge is a Warren through truss bridge, and one of the early styles of the bridge. The bridge was constructed in 1873 by the Louisville Bridge and Iron Company and Phoenix Iron Company of Pennsylvania and is currently maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. Its clearance is 22' and 6" high and can hold a limit of 15 tons of traffic.HistoryThe Kentucky Route 2014 Bridge was constructed mostly by the Louisville Bridge and Iron Company, located in Louisville, Kentucky and the Phoenix Iron Company of Philadelphia, just for the "Iron Phoenix" columns used on the bridge, which were patented in 1862. Although the bridge has not been structurally safe for some time, it has been proposed for addition to the National Register of Historic Places. The bridge was only one of two constructed by the Louisville Bridge and Iron Company in Kentucky itself. The Route 2014 Bridge, when constructed in 1873, proved to be a large and good example of its construction.The bridge, which provides continuous service to people in the rural areas around Pineville, was rated a 38.3 out of 100 points in a May 1, 1987 survey, which also included the 15 ton limit. A lot of the 70 historic bridges spread throughout Kentucky are either Pratt or Warren through trusses, the two most popular kinds of trusses. The Kentucky Route 2014 Bridge, along with others built in the early Nineteenth Century, represents an early style of bridge construction.