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Moss Island Road Bridge - Older (2nd bowstring?)
Description
Lost truss bridge over White River on Moss Island Road.This is the 2nd of three bridges built at this location. The first was a wooden covered bridge.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Bowstring truss bridge over White River on Moss Island Road
- Location
- Anderson, Madison County, Indiana
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1869 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company; replaced in 1926
- Builder
- - Wrought Iron Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio
- Design
- Bowstring through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.11438, -85.72005 (decimal degrees)
40°06'52" N, 85°43'12" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/609075/4441237 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 84340 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 28, 2020: New photo from Art Suckewer
- June 2, 2019: New photo from Art Suckewer
- March 23, 2019: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added builder and truss
- January 29, 2019: Added by Melissa Brand-Welch
Related Bridges
- Moss Island Road Bridge (Successor)
Sources
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Art Suckewer - Asuckewer [at] knite [dot] com
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