State Highway 3-A Bridge at Cibolo Creek

Texas State Highway 3-A Bridge at Cibolo Creek

Texas State Highway 3-A Bridge at Cibolo Creek
Location Schertz, Texas
 United States
Coordinates 29°30′05″N 98°11′11″W / 29.50139°N 98.18639°W / 29.50139; -98.18639Coordinates: 29°30′05″N 98°11′11″W / 29.50139°N 98.18639°W / 29.50139; -98.18639
Area Cibolo Creek at Bexar and Guadalupe County line
Architect Houston Structural Steel Co., et al., Jones, D.F., Construction Co.
NRHP Reference # 96001112
Added to NRHP October 10, 1996

Texas State Highway 3-A was one of the first original state highways proposed in 1917.[1]

History

The original northern route of this road had split off at Houston and roughly paralleled it northward through La Grange and ended at San Marcos. By 1919, the route had changed somewhat by moving further north from La Grange through Bastrop and ending in Austin. By 1933, this routing had been renumbered as SH 71.

Illustration of a Parker truss bridge.

Texas State Highway 3-A was reassigned to an alternate routing number of SH 3, which was under construction in Seguin and upon completion would run between San Antonio and Waelder. A Parker through truss bridge was built to cross the Cibolo Creek between Seguin and San Antonio around 1932.

By 1938, the route was limited to the section between Seguin, Texas and Waelder, and in 1939 became the main routing of SH 3 when the original SH 3 was transferred to U.S. Route 90.

See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in Guadalupe County, Texas

References

  1. ↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.

Notes

Historic Cibolo Creek in south central Texas is named for the American Buffalo.

National Register of Historic Places Listings, 2011

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