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Beardstown Toll Bridge
Photos
Beardstown flood 1943
Art Kistler, IDOT 5-22-1943
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BH Photo #330559
Description
Built at a cost of $21,900
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Through truss bridge over Illinois River on State Street in Beardstown
- Location
- Beardstown, Cass County, Illinois, and Schuyler County, Illinois
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1888, replaced in 1955
- Builder
- - Milwaukee Bridge & Iron Works of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Also called
- State Street Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.01986, -90.43642 (decimal degrees)
40°01'11" N, 90°26'11" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/718776/4433109 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Beardstown
- Inventory number
- BH 37291 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 29, 2018: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- November 17, 2018: Updated by Melissa Brand-Welch: Updated builder & added link
- September 27, 2015: New video from Jacob P. Bernard
- June 27, 2015: New photo from Gene Smania
- October 19, 2009: Updated by Kim Harvey: second link
- August 24, 2008: Added by Kim Harvey
there is a video on youtube of the flooding in 1943, showing this old bridge many times, credit will be given to the poster and the narrator.