The Mulberry River Bridge, also known as the Silver Bridge and the Wire Ford Bridge, is a historic Pratt through truss bridge northeast of Pleasant Hill, Arkansas, now a neighborhood of the city of Mulberry. The bridge (which is closed for renovations) normally carries Wire Road/Center Point Road across the Mulberry River. The bridge has three spans, set on metal caissons filled with concrete, and has a total length of . Each span measures , and has a deck width of and a vertical clearance of . In 1927 it was rebuilt when two of the three spans were washed out by the Mulberry River. The bridge is the last known multi-span Pratt through truss bridge in the state.
The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007, and was delisted in 2024.
See also List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Arkansas List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Mulberry River Bridge (Turner's Bend, Arkansas), also NRHP-listed National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places listings in Crawford County, Arkansas
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