| Address: FM 574 and Fisher St. | |
| Directions: Located at intersection of FM 574 and Fisher Street (Highway 133/16) on Fisher Street, Goldthwaite. | |
| Marker #: 5333004235 | |
| Year Dedicated: 1976 | |
| Size, type: 18" x 28" | |
| Last reported condition: N/A | |
| Regency Suspension Bridge - (near extinct town of Regency, 4.4 mi. S) This area's first Colorado River bridge was at Regency, on Mills-San Saba County line. Built 1903, it served ranchers and farmers for going to market, but fell in 1924, killing a boy, a horse, and some cattle. Its successor was demolished by a 1936 flood. With 90 per cent of the work done by hand labor, the Regency Suspension Bridge was erected in 1939. It became the pride of the locality, and youths gathered there in the 1940s to picnic, dance, and sing. Bypassed by paved farm roads, it now (1976) survives as one of the last suspension bridges in Texas. (1976, 1997) | |
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Decimal degrees: N 31.460130 W -98.565560
Degrees, minutes: N 31 27.608 W 098 33.934 UTM: Zone 14, Easting 541274, Northing 3480679 |
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