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Old Keokuk Bridge

Lee County, Iowa, and Hancock County, Illinois
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Scientific American. December 12,1874

Image scanned/uploaded by Marcel Douwe Dekker

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)

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Map 

Facts 

Overview
Lost Through truss bridge over Mississippi River on Railroad/Road
Location
Hamilton, Lee County, Iowa, and Hancock County, Illinois
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
History
Built 1871; Replaced 1917
Builders
- Keystone Bridge Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Thomas Curtis Clarke (Designer)
Design
Through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 380.0 ft.
Total length: 2,193.2 ft. (0.4 mi.)
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.39093, -91.37247   (decimal degrees)
40°23'27" N, 91°22'21" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/638132/4472419 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Hamilton
Inventory number
BH 53545 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (3,854)
Built 1871 (53)
Built during 1870s (547)
Hamilton, Illinois (3)
Hancock County, Illinois (44)
Illinois (2,501)
Iowa (3,622)
Keokuk, Iowa (4)
Keystone Bridge Co. (22)
Lee County, Iowa (32)
Lost (10,499)
Lost 1917 (8)
Lost during 1910s (57)
Mississippi River (155)
 Movable (1,360)
Navigable waterway (1,453)
Railroad (4,226)
Replaced by new bridge (7,224)
Span length 250-500 feet (867)
State line crossing (515)
Swing (537)
Thomas Curtis Clarke (1)
Through truss (9,256)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,223)
Truss (23,618)
Wooden deck (5,415)
Wrought iron (230)

Update Log 

  • December 18, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added designer to builder's section
  • September 15, 2012: Added by Luke Harden

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