Port Orange Causeway

Port Orange Causeway
Port Orange Causeway
Coordinates	29°08′53″N 80°58′32″W / 29.14806°N 80.97556°W
Carries	Four lanes of SR A1A
Crosses	Halifax River; Intracoastal Waterway
Locale	Port Orange, Florida
Official name	William V. Chappel Jr. Memorial Bridge
Maintained by	Florida Dept. of Transportation
ID number	790147
Characteristics
Design	Stringer/Multi-beam or Girder
Material	Prestressed concrete
Total length	228.6 meters (750 ft)
Clearance below	19.8 meters (65 feet)
History
Construction end	1990
Statistics
Daily traffic	29,000
Toll	Free
Location

The Port Orange Causeway, commonly called the Port Orange Bridge or the Dunlawton Bridge, spans the Halifax River and Intracoastal Waterway in Port Orange, Volusia County, Florida. The bridge carries approximately 29,000 vehicles per day across four lanes of State Road A1A and Dunlawton Avenue.^[1]

History

First bridge

The first bridge at this location was built by the Port Orange Bridge Company (owned by S. H. Gove) in 1906, made of sable palm pilings and pine bridge timbers. In 1918, Gove offered to sell the bridge to Volusia County. The bridge was severely damaged by a hurricane in 1932, and was torn down. Port Orange was without a bridge for many years after the disaster.^[2]

Second bridge

A bascule bridge was finally built here as a replacement in 1951. The two-lane drawbridge was paid for with tolls. The bridge connected the two ends of Dunlawton Avenue, from the mainland to the beach peninsula.^[3]

Third bridge

When funded in 1987, the 1990 built Port Orange Causeway bridge (*bottom photo*) over the Halifax River was planned to be similar to the 1983 Granada Bridge (*top photo*) passing over that same river.

In May 1987, the U.S. federal government agreed to provide $8.16 million of the estimated $12 million cost of building a Port Orange, Florida bridge planned to be similar to the Granada Bridge.^[4] After the drawbridge had aged and was expensive to maintain, it was replaced in 1990 by a new four-lane high bridge, which carries State Road A1A over the river. The Florida State Legislature designated the new bridge as the Congressman William V. Chappel Jr. Memorial Bridge.^[5]

References

^ Florida Dept. of Transportation, Florida Bridge Information
^ History of Volusia County, Florida; by Pleasant Daniel Gold (1927)
^ Centennial History of Volusia County, Florida (1854-1954); "Bridges"; by Ianthe Bond Hebel (1954)
^ Truesdell, Al (May 29, 1987). "Bridge Money Elates Port Orange $8 Million from U.S. Fund will Help Replace Dunlawton Causeway". Volusia Sentinel. Orlando Sentinel. p. 1. Archived from the original on May 25, 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2008. A spokesman for U.S. Congressman Bill Chappell, D-Ormond Beach, said the federal government will pay $8.16 million of the estimated $12 million cost of building a 65-foot-high bridge that will be similar to the Granada Bridge in Ormond Beach.
^ Cardwell, Harold and Priscilla (2000). Images of America: Port Orange. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-0618-4.

Gallery

External links

[1] Florida Dept. of Transportation, Florida Bridge Information

[2] History of Volusia County, Florida; by Pleasant Daniel Gold (1927)

[3] Centennial History of Volusia County, Florida (1854-1954); "Bridges"; by Ianthe Bond Hebel (1954)

[4] Truesdell, Al (May 29, 1987). "Bridge Money Elates Port Orange $8 Million from U.S. Fund will Help Replace Dunlawton Causeway". Volusia Sentinel. Orlando Sentinel. p. 1. Archived from the original on May 25, 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2008. A spokesman for U.S. Congressman Bill Chappell, D-Ormond Beach, said the federal government will pay $8.16 million of the estimated $12 million cost of building a 65-foot-high bridge that will be similar to the Granada Bridge in Ormond Beach.

[5] Cardwell, Harold and Priscilla (2000). Images of America: Port Orange. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-0618-4.

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Panhandle	Escambia Bay Garcon Point John Gorrie Mid-Bay Pensacola Bay St. George Island Trammell Victory
North	Acosta Bridge of Lions Main Street Buckman Dames Point Fuller Warren Hart Mathews Memorial Strauss Trunnion Little Lake Harris Herman C. McCray Jr. L.E. Buie
West Central	Bayside Clearwater Memorial Courtney Campbell Gandy Howard Frankland Pinellas Bayway Sunshine Skyway Treasure Island
East Central	A. Max Brewer Alma Lee Loy Astor Bennett Bert Dosh Broadway Eau Gallie Granada Lake Jesup Lake Underhill Melbourne Merrill P. Barber Merritt Island NASA Osteen Pete Damon Pineda Port Orange Roosevelt Sebastian Inlet Torry Island Wabasso Whitehair
South	Blue Heron Broad Coral Springs^† Flagler Memorial Julia Tuttle John F. Kennedy Lehman MacArthur Rickenbacker Royal Park Snow-Reed^‡ Thomas B. Manuel Venetian
Southwest	Blackburn Point Bridge^‡ Boca Grande^‡ Bonita Beach Caloosahatchee Cape Coral Cortez Desoto Edison Fort Hamer Green John Ringling Longboat Pass Matanzas Pass Midpoint Sanibel S.S. Jolley Stan Gober Tom Adams
Keys	Bahia Honda Card Sound Jewfish Creek Long Key Overseas Highway Seven Mile
Tunnels	Henry E. Kinney Port of Miami
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Lists	List of bridges in Florida List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida List of movable bridges in Florida
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