Photos
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Overview |
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View Of West Side Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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View Of East Side Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Southern Portal Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Detail Of Wouth End Name Plate Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Northern Portal Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Floor Beams, Diagonals And Lower Connections Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Detail Of Diagonal Rods Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Underside, Looking North Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Detail Of Truss And Diagonal Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Detail Of Floor Beam And Vertical Rod Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Pecatonica River on N. Van Buren Avenue in Freeport
- Location
- Stephenson County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- History
- Built 1885 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Co.
- Builder
- - Wrought Iron Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio
- Design
- Whipple through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 198.1 ft.
Total length: 204.0 ft.
Deck width: 17.3 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 12.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.30944, -89.62389 (decimal degrees)
42°18'34" N, 89°37'26" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/283744/4687468 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Freeport East
- Inventory numbers
- IL 089-6000 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 15683 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 17, 2010: New Street View added by Nathan Holth
- July 22, 2009: New photo from Anthony Dillon
- December 28, 2008: New photos from Kim Harvey
- October 31, 2007: Posted photo from Doug Vander Wilt
Sources
- Doug Vander Wilt - unsearchable [at] gmail [dot] com
- HAER IL-9 - Pecatonica River Bridge, Spanning Pecatonica River at Winnesheik Road, Freeport vicinity, Stephenson County, IL
- Kim Harvey
- Anthony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Nathan Holth
Comments
I found the site of this bridge. It would appear that a new bridge was built on a slightly different alignment, and then the old bridge was removed.
Your right Matthew.....I looked at these photos on the HAER sites and they are for another bridge that also spanned the Pecatonica River on Winneshiek Road near Freeport. Apparently that bridge is now gone, while the Van Buren Ave. bridge remains.
I've noticed that the Whipple truss bridge shown in the first photograph is not the same bridge as the one shown in the rest of the photos or the one referenced by the HAER link (the other is a Pratt truss).