Panorama of Waco Suspension Bridge Over the Brazos River at Twilight - Waco Central Texas is a photograph by Silvio Ligutti which was uploaded on November 13th, 2015.
Panorama of Waco Suspension Bridge Over the Brazos River at Twilight - Waco Central Texas
This is a panoramic image of the Waco Suspension bridge that connects Indian Springs Park to the SW to Martin Luther King Jr. Park to the NE. The... more
Title
Panorama of Waco Suspension Bridge Over the Brazos River at Twilight - Waco Central Texas
Artist
Silvio Ligutti
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Photograph - Photography
Description
This is a panoramic image of the Waco Suspension bridge that connects Indian Springs Park to the SW to Martin Luther King Jr. Park to the NE. The Brazos River runs through it. I made this image standing on the Frankling Avenue Bridge, battling the poor lighting and the high winds. I had to raise the ISO and keep the exposure times short to make sure I didn't get any blurry images on this six-photograph panoramic. Thanks for looking!
A little bit of background history taken from the Wikipedia:
The Waco Suspension Bridge crosses the Brazos River in Waco, Texas. It is a single-span suspension bridge with a main span of 475 feet (145 m). Opened in 1869, it contains nearly 3 million bricks. It is located north of Downtown Waco, connecting Indian Spring Park (on the southwest side of the river) with Doris D. Miller Park (on the northeast side of the river). Every year on Independence Day, the bridge serves as a place where thousands of locals gather to watch fireworks. Indian Spring Park marks the location of the origin of the town of Waco, where the Huaco Indians had settled on the bank of the river, at the location of an icy cold spring.
Before 1869, crossing the Brazos River was a time-consuming and sometimes dangerous ordeal. The only way to cross the river was via ferry, and due to the location of Waco on the growing Chisholm Trail, local businessmen knew that a bridge was needed to support commerce. A charter was received from the state in 1866.
Col. John T. Flint, an Austin lawyer and banker, who had moved to Waco after the war and established a firm named Flint & Chamberlain, went personally to New York to handle the contract for building a bridge.
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November 13th, 2015
