Archer Avenue Bridge (old)

Cook County, Illinois

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View from south bank

Looking north across the channel at the bridge site. Power and telephone lines still cross here.

Photo taken by Roger Deschner in September 2012

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

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BH Photo #284577

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Description

Previous bridge carrying old alignment of Archer Avenue across Cal Sag Channel. All that remains today is the south abutment, and a number of power and telephone lines that formerly paralleled Archer Avenue which still cross here. Old Archer Avenue is open from the south as a hiking trail to the site. The community around it is named Sag Bridge, after the bridge, and the church to its north is named St. James at Sag Bridge.

Very few details are known about this bridge.

Facts

Overview: Lost Bridge over Cal Sag Channel on Archer Avenue
Location: Lemont, Cook County, Illinois
Status: Replaced by a new bridge
History: Replaced ca. 1934
Also called: The Sag Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude: +41.69609, -87.93306 (decimal degrees)
41°41'46" N, 87°55'59" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 16/422359/4616454 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Sag Bridge
Inventory number: BH 61139 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Update Log

May 31, 2014: Added by Roger Deschner

Related Bridges

Archer Avenue Bridge (Successor)

Sources

Roger Deschner - rogerdeschner [at] gmail [dot] com