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Rose-Dunmire Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Town lattice truss bridge over North River on Road
- Location
- Madison County, Iowa
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1871; Replaced 1912
- Builder
- - E. H. Conger
- Design
- Town lattice through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.40531, -94.22311 (decimal degrees)
41°24'19" N, 94°13'23" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/397766/4584473 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Earlham West
- Inventory numbers
- WGCB IA/15-61-16x (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 74673 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Related Bridges
- North River Bridge (Old) (Successor)
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The Rose-Dunmire Covered Bridge was completed in August 1871 over the North River in Jackson Township along Creamery Road, about eight miles south of Dexter, adjacent to property owned by John and George Rose. According to the August 24, 1871 issue of the Winterset Madisionian, “The new bridge across North River, in the Rose neighborhood, has just been completed. It is a very superior bridge forty-five feet long with approaches seven feet on one end, and thirty feet on the other. It is covered and painted, and cost nine hundred dollars.” Payment was given to E. H. Conger to build it.
In 1912, a new iron pony truss bridge was built, bypassing the old bridge. (The photograph above shows the crew on the new bridge during construction with the old bridge in the background. It’s believed that this photograph was taken in 1910 or 1911.)