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2nd Street Bridge (Older)

Muscatine County, Iowa

Photos 

Photo taken by Oscar Grossheim. Image provided by Musser Public Library

BH Photo #273213

Map 

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
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)

Categories 

19th Century (6,820)
Built 1884 (159)
Built during 1880s (1,821)
Great White Way/White Pole Road (8)
Iowa (6,174)
Iowa Primary Road 2 (5)
Lost (21,665)
Lost 1917 (35)
Lost during 1910s (425)
Mad Creek (22)
 Muscatine County, Iowa (150)
Muscatine, Iowa (36)
Owned by county (19,907)
Pin-connected (3,675)
Pony truss (15,641)
Pratt pony truss (3,431)
Pratt truss (8,623)
Replaced by new bridge (14,357)
River To River Road (20)
Truss (31,052)

Update Log 

  • 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

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2nd Street Bridge (Older)
Posted August 18, 2015, by Luke

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...

2nd Street Bridge (Older)
Posted August 18, 2015, by Dave Darby (dwdarby [at] aol [dot] com)

This is not a River to River Road Bridge. The River to River Road was much more northerly, near Wilton and Moscow. This bridge would have carried the Great White Way, and Iowa Primary 2.