1877 Bowstring Bridge over, and 1823 Grist Mill on, Rough River near Falls of Rough, KY

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Green Brothers Grist Mill: (Satellite)

The name of this bridge is Green Mill Farm Bridge.

Another bowstring bridge, the Rock Lick Creek Bridge, is just a mile away from this one.

"This is an outstanding example of a mid-1870s King Bridge Company cast and wrought iron bowstring truss bridge." [HistoricBridges] The design is a combination of a tied-arch and a truss.

C Hanchey Flickr, Jul 2009, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 
Greens Farm Mill Bridge
Historic 1877 Greens Farm Mill bowstring arch-truss bridge over the Rough River

1 of 6 photos posted by Bridges & Tunnels
Kentucky still boasts several rare bowstring trusses, some of which were fabricated by the King Bridge Company of Cleveland, Ohio. Let's explore two of them in the vicinity of Falls of Rough in our latest Journal post, Photographing Kentucky’s Rare Bowstring Trusses: http://bridgestunnels.com/.../photographing-kentuckys.../

Anita Haycraft, May 2021

It is hard to imagine what kind of water wheel this mill used.

Dewayne Buress, Jul 2022

Brody Dyer, Sep 2021, at source resolution

I downloaded a higher resolution copy of Hanchey's Flickr photo to confirm that this old bridge was pin connected. But there are very few pin connections. I have learned of an even older connection technology. They thread the end of the members and use nuts.

C Hanchey Flickr, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 

This photo illustrates that connection technique.

Sep 2011 photo by J.P. via BridgeHunter