Rating:
3 votes
Saulsbury Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pinned Pratt through truss over Cedar River on Saulsbury Bridge Recreation Area Fishing Pier
- Location
- Muscatine County, Iowa
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- Future prospects
- Remaining spans were converted into a fishing pier.
- History
- Built 1881; Closed to vehicular traffic 1967; Partially lost in accidental fire March 26 1977; Converted to a fishing pier sometime thereafter
- Builder
- - King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Co. of Cleveland, Ohio [also known as King Bridge Co.]
- Design
- Pinned Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 160.0 ft.
Total length: 640.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.49999, -91.17449 (decimal degrees)
41°29'60" N, 91°10'28" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/652365/4595871 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Muscatine NW
- Inventory number
- BH 48891 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- September 12, 2015: Updated by Luke: Added builder (King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Co.)
- August 20, 2014: Updated by Luke: Added category "River To River Road"
- July 20, 2013: New photos from Luke Harden
- October 30, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Lally columns", "A-frame portal"
- January 12, 2012: New photo from Luke Harden
- September 1, 2011: New photo from Luke Harden
- June 11, 2011: Added by Luke Harden
Sources
- Luke
- Iowa State University Geographic Information Systems - 1950s Aerial Imagery
- Engineering News Volume 7 - Book
Comments
Saulsbury Bridge
This bridge never carried the River to River Road. The River to River Road crossed the Cedar at Moscow.
Saulsbury Bridge
Looks like a Pratt to me. The Pratt design does not require counters on any specific number of panels.
Saulsbury Bridge
cool bridge, great stone piers. I would say a Pratt and I could be like 33% wrong or right. Who built it? Muscatine was the first real river town I did as a kid with a houseboat that looked like a trailer. The Mighty Mississippi....
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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...