Rating:
6 votes

2nd Street Bridge

Buchanan County, Iowa

Photos 

Photo provided by Hank Zaletel

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

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Map 

Facts 

Overview
Lost Pennsylvania through truss bridge over Wapsipinicon River on 2nd Street
Location
Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
History
Built 1894; Replaced 1968
Design
Pennsylvania through truss bracketed with Pratt pony approach spans.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+42.46757, -91.89381   (decimal degrees)
42°28'03" N, 91°53'38" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/590938/4702284 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Independence
Inventory number
BH 55669 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (7,701)
Buchanan County, Iowa (98)
Built 1894 (240)
Built during 1890s (3,017)
Independence, Iowa (18)
Iowa (6,555)
Lally columns (315)
Lattice Railing (222)
Lost (25,522)
Lost 1968 (88)
 Lost during 1960s (784)
Pennsylvania truss (493)
Pin-connected (3,963)
Pony truss (16,350)
Pratt pony truss (3,687)
Pratt truss (9,443)
Replaced by new bridge (17,215)
Through truss (15,350)
Truss (33,245)
Wapsipinicon River (77)

Update Log 

  • December 10, 2019: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
  • December 10, 2019: Updated by Luke: Added placeholder build date from Newspapers.com
  • July 16, 2015: Updated by Luke: Added category "Lally columns"
  • February 28, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Changed type

Sources 

  • Luke
  • Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
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Comments 

2nd Street Bridge
Posted December 10, 2019, by Melissa Brand-Welch (melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com)

Photo added Luke

2nd Street Bridge
Posted December 10, 2019, by Luke

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/31320086/

2nd Street Brige
Posted February 28, 2013, by Nathan Holth (form3 [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

I actually just started the award :) As I am sure many historians do, I have often wished to be able to travel back in time. Imagine the stir it would create if I suddenly started posting color digital camera photos for bridges demolished 80 years ago!

2nd Street Bridge
Posted February 28, 2013, by Jason Smith (JDSmith77 [at] gmx [dot] net)

Jeez Nathan,

I didn't know you had another award for a HB. But it definitely makes sense. I'm actually going to add this to my Mystery Bridge category for the Chronicles, together with another pair of Pennsylvania through truss bridges located in Clinton and Lyon Counties. I'm really curious to see how many Pennsylvania trusses were actually constructed in Iowa, for according to HABS/HAER records, they were rarely used, but from my point of view, I really disagree- they were used just as much as the Parker and Pratt through trusses.....

2nd Street Brige
Posted February 28, 2013, by Nathan Holth (webmaster [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

I'd give this bridge the TARDIS Award (A bridge that would be high on my list to visit if I had a time machine). Very sad to see the awesome bridges that once existed but are gone now.

By the way, its hard to tell, but it looks like this bridge's main span had intermediate connections and was actually a Pennsylvania truss not a Parker truss.