Lake Tillery Bridge

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The Lake Tillery Bridge is a bridge in North Carolina, the only crossing of the Pee-Dee-Yadkin River between Badin Lake and Norwood. The bridge carries traffic on North Carolina Highway 24/27/73 across the river and Lake Tillery from Stanly County to Montgomery County. Swift Island Bridge, the water's old crossing parallels the newer four-lane bridge which accompanies it; the older bridge 1s a narrow two-lane concrete arch bridge built in 1922.

In the 1920's when it was discovered that the 5,000 acre lake to be impounded behind the Norwood dam would cover the original reinforced concrete and steel bridge, Carolina Power & Light Company, owner of the new dam, turned it over to the U.S. military for training purposes.

First, engineers were unable to break the bridge by loading it with enough weight to break it. Next, the Air Force dropped bombs on it. Later, an artillery division shot at it.

It finally took a ton of TNT to bring the bridge down. An clearly embarrassed U.S. War Department saved face by saying that it had obtained "valuable military data" from the experience.