Sugarloaf Bridge in Milam County is a 234-foot-long, pin-connected Parker through truss bridge over the Little River near historic Sugarloaf Mountain. Parker trusses like this one were developed by C.H. Parker in patents filed between 1868 and 1871. The truss span used for this bridge was first erected in 1896 over the Brazos River on the Bryan-Caldwell Road in Brazos County, at the site of the Pitts Ferry Crossing, by the Brazos River Bridge Company as part of a multi-span toll bridge. In 1909, Brazos County purchased it and kept it in use as a free bridge until 1930, when the Texas Highway Department built Highway 21 and the bridge was abandoned after a new Brazos River crossing on SH 21 was completed. In Milam County, the Faubion Bridge on an early route known as Ramons Road, about a mile upstream from the present Sugarloaf Bridge, had been the area's only crossing of the Little River. After the Faubion Bridge fell into the river in December 1937, Milam County hired the Austin Bridge Company to move one span of the abandoned Brazos River bridge to its present site near the base of Sugarloaf Mountain in 1940. In 2006, the bridge was restored by the Texas Department of Transportation using Federal Highway Transportation Enhancement funds, and it continues its transportation legacy as a pedestrian bridge and as an early landmark shared by the people of both Brazos and Milam Counties.