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State Bridge

Eagle County, Colorado
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Overview
Lost two-span Howe through truss bridge over Colorado River
Location
Eagle County, Colorado
Status
No longer exists
History
Built 1890 by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. under a $5,790 state contract
Builder
- Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Works of Leavenworth, Kansas
Design
Howe through truss
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 24, 1985
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.85792, -106.64897   (decimal degrees)
39°51'29" N, 106°38'56" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
13/358949/4413288 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
State Bridge
Inventory numbers
NRHP 85001401 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 11849 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (3,822)
Built 1890 (142)
Built during 1890s (1,556)
Colorado (406)
Colorado River (18)
Eagle County, Colorado (14)
Howe through truss (203)
 Howe truss (249)
Lost (10,373)
Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Works (14)
NR-listed (2,354)
Owned by state (9,810)
Through truss (9,211)
Truss (23,575)

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State Bridge
Posted October 13, 2007, by Greg Black (gregoryb [at] aol [dot] com)

There is a modern bridge, which replaced the old state bridge. There was a Lodge there, which burned down earlier this year (2007), but the cabin that Teddy Roosevelt stayed in still survived. You can see some of the old timbers which formed the bridge on the North Bank, as well as the concrete support structures still in place in the river.