Rating:
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Moneek Bridge
Photos
This Bowstring pony truss formerly spanned the Yellow River, but has been relocated to the Castalia City Park.
Photo taken by Robert Elder in July 2007
BH Photo #111995
Description
The wrought-iron Eureka Bridge is an example of the bowstring bridge, called bowstring truss or iron arch in the nineteenth century. Bowstring bridges were widely built in Iowa in the period 1860-1880. As with other iron bridges, they were usually produced in the shops of large bridge companies. The Eureka Bridge represents the small minority of such bridges designed and built by local entrepreneurs in regional machine shops.-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Bowstring pony truss bridge
- Location
- Winneshiek County, Iowa
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- History
- Built ca. 1872. Relocated to Castalia City Park ca. 1993
- Builder
- - Allen, McEvoy & Co. of Beloit, Wisconsin
- Design
- Bowstring pony truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +43.10737, -91.67301 (decimal degrees)
43°06'27" N, 91°40'23" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/607972/4773592 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Castalia
- Inventory number
- BH 36304 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 26, 2017: New photos from Kevin Skow
- November 19, 2013: Updated by Brent Tindall: Adjusted GPS coordinates
- October 11, 2012: HAER photos posted by Jason Smith
- September 5, 2011: New photos from Jason Smith
- February 22, 2008: Added by Robert Elder
Sources
- Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Eureka Bridge listing for Winnshiek County - The Historical American Engineering Record documentation of this bridge.
- Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- HAER IA-10 - Eureka Bridge, Spanning Yellow River (Moved to City Park, Castalia), Frankville, Winneshiek County, IA
- Brent Tindall - bizzat219 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Kevin Skow - weatherbum [at] hotmail [dot] com
Comments
Moneek Bridge
This entry was made before the original location of the bridge was known by us bridgehunters.
Moneek Bridge
A bridge so nice, it's been listed twice. (under it's two common names)
http://bridgehunter.com/ia/winneshiek/moneek/
http://bridgehunter.com/ia/winneshiek/eureka/
Perhaps these pages should be merged. I vote for the resulting page to be listed as moneek.
Don
© Copyright 2002-18, James Baughn and contributors.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ia/winneshiek/moneek/
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ia/winneshiek/moneek/
Fair enough, if you prefer that entries exist for both names of the bridge, the broken link (under Sources for the Eureka bridge) should be fixed so that someone searching for either name doesn't miss the information posted under the alternate name.
Thanks,
Don