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2nd Street Bridge (1884)
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pony truss bridge over Mad Creek on 2nd Street
- Location
- Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built ca. 1884; Replaced 1917
- Builders
- - James B. Locke of Binghampton, New York
- King Bridge Co. of Cleveland, Ohio
- Design
- Pratt pony truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.42583, -91.03722 (decimal degrees)
41°25'33" N, 91°02'14" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/664009/4587889 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Muscatine
- Inventory number
- BH 52417 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- September 29, 2020: Updated by Luke: Added builder
- January 22, 2014: Updated by Luke Harden: Added category "Pin-connected"
- July 10, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added loss date
- November 15, 2012: Photo imported by Luke Harden
- May 9, 2012: Added by Luke Harden
Related Bridges
- 2nd Street Bridge (1917) (Successor)
Sources
- Luke
- History of Muscatine County, Volume 1. edited by Irving Berdine Richman - Book
- The Muscatine Journal from Muscatine, Iowa on June 7, 1883 ยท 2 - Thursday, June 7, 1883 . lint powder nerer fkrlM. A marvel of pur-if, latre'iirtb and whoteeorneneae. Mora Kti'imkmi than the ordinary kinds, and urn--ot be nold In competition with the multitude f ii,vt tost, abort weight, alum or phosphat
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According to the "Heubringer's Map & Guide for the River-to-River Road", it carried the Muscatine Branch of the River-to-River Road that went from Davenport to West Liberty via Muscatine: https://archive.org/stream/huebingersmapgui00hueb/huebingers...