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The Byram Bridge, spanning the Pearl River between Hinds County, Mississippi and Rankin County, Mississippi, is a historic bridge which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]

The bridge was built in 1905 as a collaboration between merchants in Byram, Mississippi and Rankin County.[2] In 1987, the bridge was deemed unsafe for travel and was closed to traffic. The bridge was converted to a pedestrian footbridge in 2015.

It is located at Old Byram and Florence Rd. near Frenchs Store, Mississippi.

It is a swinging suspension bridge type of suspension bridge, with two towers, nearly 360 feet (110 m) in total length. The central span is about 200 feet (61 m).[3]

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