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Americus Bridge
Photo
Builder plaques from original bridge.
Marker located at south end of new bridge.
Photo taken by Tom Hall in May 2010
BH Photo #164081
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Wabash River on Grant Road
- Location
- Tippecanoe County, Indiana
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built in 1893 by Lafayette Bridge Co.
- Builder
- - Lafayette Bridge Co. of Lafayette, Indiana
- Design
- May have been a whipple truss, unable to confirm.
- Also called
- Bridge #150
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.52883, -86.75997 (decimal degrees)
40°31'44" N, 86°45'36" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/520330/4486482 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Brookston
- Inventory number
- BH 45138 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
© Copyright 2002-18, James Baughn and contributors.
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/in/tippecanoe/americus/
I grew up near this bridge and as teen spent a lot of time riding dirt bikes in the old Wabash & Erie canal that runs along the river at the south end of the bridge. I was always fond of the old bridge, but that was before I became interested in historic bridges so I never gave it a lot of thought, it was just a way to get from one side of the river to the other.
By the time it was replaced (1983) I was newly married and living some distance away so I never got a chance to visit the old bridge before it was gone.
I now wish I had paid more attention to it and taken at least at a couple of photos because so far I have found very little information concerning it.
If anyone has any information, photos or memories of this bridge please contact me.