Wilkes T. Thrasher Bridge
The Wilkes T. Thrasher Bridge is a 4-lane road bridge located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It opened in 1955 as a two lane road after much pressure from Wilkes T.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Bridge
- Description: bridge in Tennessee, United States
- Also known as: “Wilkes T Thrasher Bridge”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chickamauga Dam and Tenbridge.
Chickamauga Dam
Power station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Chickamauga Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. The dam is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the late 1930s as part of a New Deal era initiative to improve navigation and bring flood control and economic development to the Tennessee Valley. Chickamauga Dam is situated 600 feet south of Wilkes T. Thrasher Bridge.
Tenbridge
Bridge
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tenbridge is a vertical-lift railroad bridge over the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It has a main span of 310 feet. The original span was a swing span with a center pivot that was originally built in ca. Tenbridge is situated 1,300 feet west of Wilkes T. Thrasher Bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lupton City and Boyce.
Lupton City
Hamlet
Lupton City is a neighborhood of Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. The community developed in the 1920s as a mill town, a planned community that contained the Dixie Spinning Mills thread mill and housing for its workers. Lupton City is situated 2 miles west of Wilkes T. Thrasher Bridge.
Boyce
Hamlet
Boyce is an area within Chattanooga, Tennessee. Boyce is situated 2½ miles southwest of Wilkes T. Thrasher Bridge.
Chattanooga
Chattanooga is the 4th largest city in Tennessee. It is the seat of Hamilton County. It is in Southeast Tennessee on the Tennessee River and near the border of Georgia.
Wilkes T. Thrasher Bridge
- Category: transportation
- Location: Hamilton, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.10465° or 35° 6′ 17″ northLongitude
-85.22896° or 85° 13′ 44″ westElevation
633 feet (193 metres)Open location code
867P4Q3C+VCOpenStreetMap ID
way 1121505097OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=bridge
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Russian—“Wilkes T. Thrasher Bridge” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Wilkes T. Thrasher Bridge”
- Russian: “Мост Уилкса Трэшера (Чаттануга)”
- Russian: “Мост Уилкса Трэшера”
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