Abandoned highways and bridges of Texas

Old Highway 29 (Crane Lane) north of Lockhart

This is the scene of a long abandoned old state highway, but a bridge that still stands as part of a section called Crane Lane, although the road basically dead ends at the bridge. The bridge is a beautiful example of the way they were built in Texas for the first paved highways, probably in the 1930s sometime. The aerial from MSRmaps.com is from 1995 and shows the old state highway very well. Most of it is gone now, as 183 has been divided into four lanes and a toll road from Austin passes through this section. Fortunately, the bridge and a small piece of history, do remain. And, I would say, one of the most beautiful examples of early bridges in Texas.