Sixth Street Bridge over the Saginaw River
unknown year taken
taken from Michigan State Historic Preservation Office, Flickr
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
BH Photo #324829
Nathan:
Hyde's 1976 inventory confirms your theory, this was indeed a Smith Co. bridge. It also offers that this was originally built for Genesee Avenue further downstream, until being moved to Sixth Street in 1904.
Also, Hyde has the exact same photo for this in the inventory; it either dates to that specifically or goes back even farther.
Incidentally, I once visited the north end of the river at this site, and it looks like even the abutments were removed.
When I was a police officer for Saginaw we would use it to quickly get to area 7 from area 1.
I am somewhat familiar with Michigan bridge history, and there definitely was a 6th Street Bridge in Saginaw. The likely builder was Smith Bridge Company of Toledo. Similar styled bridge. http://bridgehunter.com/ky/meade/bh43007/
How about this?
I can find no proof of this bridges existence, the satellite shows an empty lot and the NRHP has no listing for it. The NBI shows it, but that was the only proof i could find.
My father used the 6th street bridge regularly to get from the foundry to the bar. The foundry was on the east side of the river. The bar was in Carrollton on the west side.