Cummins Creek Bridge
2 mi. NW of Round Top over Cummins Creek, Round Top, TXThe Cummins Creek Bridge is an outstanding example of a nineteenth-century through truss bridge. These bridges were fabricated for general use, sold by a regional sales representative, then shipped to the site and assembled. This structure, manufactured by King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1890, is one of the few of its kind that remains in general-purpose daily use in Texas.
It is appropriate that a King Company bridge be nominated to the National Register of Historic Places, as this company was one of the most prominent in Texas from the 1870s to 1900. Examination of records of the Commissioner's Court of Fayette County, Texas, shows that the King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company, through its agent, S. A. 01iver, was almost always the low bidder on contracts and supplied a major per- centage of Fayette County's iron bridges. After 1900, 01iver, King's agent, left the company and formed a fabricating firm, S. A. Oliver and Company, Bridge Engineers and Builders, in Houston, Texas. From that date, King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company's importance in Texas declined.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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