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Beardstown Toll Bridge

Cass County, Illinois, and Schuyler County, Illinois
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Overview
Lost Bridge over Illinois River in Beardstown
Location
Beardstown, Cass County, Illinois, and Schuyler County, Illinois
Status
Replaced by new bridge
History
Built 1888, Replaced 1955
Also called
State Street Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.01526, -90.44689   (decimal degrees)
40°00'55" N, 90°26'49" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/717896/4432573 (zone/easting/northing)
Inventory number
BH 37291 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (3,999)
Beardstown, Illinois (2)
Built 1888 (107)
Built during 1880s (1,087)
Cass County, Illinois (4)
Illinois (2,567)
Illinois River (47)
Lost (11,126)
 Lost 1955 (15)
Lost during 1950s (121)
Owned privately (665)
Replaced by new bridge (7,617)
Schuyler County, Illinois (11)
Through truss (9,587)
Truss (24,153)

Update Log 

  • October 19, 2009: Updated by Kim Harvey: second link
  • August 24, 2008: Added by Kim Harvey

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Beardstown Toll Bridge
Posted April 24, 2013, by Bill Graber (foursecretary [at] aol [dot] com)

There is a picture of the east portal of this old bridge in 4/24/13 State Journal-Register, Springfield's newspaper. It is showing the sandbagging being done in 1943 for the "big flood". It is a "file" picture from the SJ-R.