Elevation From South
Photo by Joe Elliott, Summer 1995, for HAER
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BH Photo #123317
"In April of 1879 the suprevisors awarded the contract to Western Bridge Works of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Using cast-iron joint blocks and wrought-iron structural sections produced by the Passaic Rolling Mills of Paterson, New Jersey, and the Pottsville (Pennsylvania) Rolling Mills, Western Bridge completed its erection of the 140' pin-connected truss late that year at a cost of $3145.38.
"This document was prepared as part of the Iowa Historic Bridges Recording Project performed during the Summer of 1995 by the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER). The project was sponsored by the Iowa Department of Transportation. (IDOT). Preliminary research on this bridge was performed by Clayton B. Fraser of Fraserdesign, Loveland, CO."
Historian: Leslie Pitner, August 1995
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I'm surprised Mr. Vlotho didn't have his crew dismantling this one WHILE it was being moved. The bridge would have been better off left standing next to it's replacement, as is it's going to pot.
Not surprising that Vlotho, who later was fired from Hardin county for illegally demolishing the Eagle City Bowstring, thought so lowly of historic structures.
It's ultimately a shame, because Hardin City and Eagle City could easily have been reused at Pine Lake State Park as the two pedestrian structures crossing the spillway/connecting channel between Upper/Lower Pine Lake instead of the MOBs that are there now.