Martin Digital History

Stuart Florida bridges, 1923

Item

Title

Stuart Florida bridges, 1923

Description

Looking south, the old concrete "auto bridge" on right, F.E.C. train bridge on left. Stuart, Florida can be seen.

FPC-8211, recorded in FPC record book 2 (p. 59) as "album series" with photographer Lowell Hill.

Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor.

Published in the South Florida Developer (28 July 1925) with the caption: "Two bridges at Stuart - on the left is the railroad bridge which is now being double tracked and a new bridge built. At the right is shown the $100,000.00 concrete vehicular traffic bridge across the St. Lucie River."

Duplicate of JP-2025-012-pa1-015

Source

Scan gift of Bette Kindberg, via Sandra Thurlow.

Publisher

Stuart Commercial Club (Stuart, Fla.)

Date

Rights

No Copyright - In the United States: The Martin County Library System believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. For more information, visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Format

Black and white print; 9.3x7.6 inches

Language

English

Type

Still image

Identifier

Thurlow-2024-022-SCC-050
2024.022
FPC-8211

Coverage

Original Format

Photographic print

Citation

Florida Photographic Concern (Ft. Pierce, Fla.) and Lowell Gordon Hill (1894-1955), “Stuart Florida bridges, 1923,” Martin Digital History, accessed October 5, 2026, https://www.martindigitalhistory.org/items/show/5019.