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1st Avenue Bridge (1885)
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Cedar River on 1st Avenue
- Location
- Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1885 ; replaced 1920
- Builder
- - Wrought Iron Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio
- Railroads
- - Cedar Rapids & Marion Street Railway (CR&M)
- Streetcar
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.97717, -91.67170 (decimal degrees)
41°58'38" N, 91°40'18" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/610046/4648094 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Cedar Rapids South
- Inventory number
- BH 56197 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 27, 2021: Updated by Luke: Referred to as Hammond through trusses by an NRHP MPS form; Added sole plausible builder
- May 6, 2013: Added by Luke Harden
Related Bridges
- 1st Avenue Bridge (1920) (Successor)
Sources
- Luke
- NPS - Article.pdf
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In the photo on the far left, you can see the B/F Avenue arch bridge is under construction. This bridge was completely removed when the Interstate 380 5-in-1 Dam Bridge was finished. Before the 5-in-1, the dam was just north of the B/F Avenue bridge and the original 1800's dam was back where the dam is today. When construction on the 5-in-1 was going on they found the wooden posts still in the mud from the original wooden dam from the mid-1800's.