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Cowden Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Kaskaskia River on TR 439A
- Location
- Shelby County, Illinois
- Status
- Carelessly scrapped
- History
- Built 1890, scrapped 2012
- Design
- Pinned Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 100.1 ft.
Total length: 167.0 ft.
Deck width: 13.5 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.24183, -88.84170 (decimal degrees)
39°14'31" N, 88°50'30" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/341062/4345229 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Beecher City
- Inventory numbers
- IL 087-3265 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 39012 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 9, 2012: Updated by Tony Dillon: Updated status as lost per forum post
- April 16, 2009: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Status
- April 11, 2009: Updated by Kim Harvey: add categories
- February 1, 2009: Added by Robert Stephenson
Sources
- Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Kim Harvey
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
Comments
Cowden Bridge
The bridge in the picture is the 3-span Shelbyville bridge on Illinois 16, it was lost in 1975.
Cowden Bridge
I saw this on a website, whether this bridge is the one in the photo or not, I can't tell. No location is given by this website: http://www.shelbycountynews.net/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=...
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My dad told me a woman he works with said this bridge no longer exists. We thought nonsense since we had been there shortly before he was told this. My brother and I were out and about one day so we decided to check it out. Sure enough, it is gone. Rumor has it that some guy recently bought the land and pulled the bridge out to scrap it. Total disappointment as it was a peaceful place to visit and go hang out at once awhile.