Citizens of Mason petitioned the county commissioners court in 1914 for a reliable way to cross Comanche Creek, which separated north and south Mason, and after initial construction bids were judged too high, a second petition followed in 1917. Because Mason had no railroad to carry large prefabricated building materials, the Alamo Construction Company built the reinforced concrete bridge on site in 1918. Perhaps the last concrete truss bridge remaining in Texas, Broad Street Bridge still carried vehicle and pedestrian traffic in Mason in 1998.