Pratt Truss Bridge

Since its arrival the bridge has lived on a golf course. Deer Park opened the bridge and the Battleground Golf Course together on April 21, 1996, San Jacinto Day, and named each of the eighteen holes for a person or device of the battle. The move came under a $125,000 grant, $100,000 from the state and $25,000 from the city. The city later spent more than $270,000 on decking, rails and pilings, and in 2019 finished a $436,450 repair, mostly to the foundation, paid from hotel-occupancy tax. Only walkers cross it now.

What the plaque says

Pratt Truss Bridge A pin connected truss bridge characteristic of the popular style that once dotted rural Texas, this bridge is the last one in Texas built by the Clinton Bridge and Iron Company of Iowa. Originally opened in 1891 on the Leon River in Coryell County in what later became Mother Neff State Park, the bridge was moved 6 miles in the late 1940s or early 1950s to County Road 322. By 1993 the bridge could no longer support modern road traffic. Texas Department of Transportation officials, in a historic preservation agreement with the Texas Historical Commission, painstakingly transported it more than 150 miles to this site. (1998)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site — 5.0 mi
  The 1,200 acres of coastal prairie and marsh where the Texas Revolution ended in eighteen minutes, and the 567-foot shaft of fossil-studded limestone that has stood over them since 1939.
• Space Center Houston — 10 mi
  The visitor center of NASA's Johnson Space Center at Clear Lake, with flown capsules, a shuttle replica riding a 747, and tram tours to Mission Control and a Saturn V.
• Emancipation Park — 14 mi
  The Third Ward park that freedpeople bought for Juneteenth in 1872, rebuilt in 2017 on Emancipation Avenue and still the center of the city's June 19 celebration.
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum — 15 mi
  A museum in Houston's 1925 Light Guard Armory that tells the service of Black soldiers from the Revolutionary War onward, built from one veteran's thirty years of collecting.

More markers nearby

• Deer Park — 0.8 mi
• Site of the Home in 1836 of Dr. George Moffit Patrick — 0.8 mi
• San Jacinto Community College District — 2.7 mi
• Battle of San Jacinto — 3.1 mi