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Cedar Avenue Bridge (Old)
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Through truss bridge over Minnesota River on Cedar Avenue
- Location
- Eagan, Dakota County, Minnesota, and Hennepin County, Minnesota
- Status
- Removed
- History
- Built 1890, removed in 1980 shortly after the current bridge was built.
- Design
- Warren through truss with all verticals (main swing span) Pratt through truss (approach span)
Town lattice portal bracing (both spans) - Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 253.0 ft.
Total length: 454.0 ft.
Deck width: 18.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +44.82653, -93.23232 (decimal degrees)
44°49'36" N, 93°13'56" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/481634/4963706 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Saint Paul SW
- Inventory number
- BH 51579 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 20, 2019: New photos from Melissa Brand-Welch
- September 23, 2013: New photo from Douglas Butler
- September 16, 2013: Updated by Jason Smith: Added categories "Pin-connected", "Minnesota River", "Wooden deck", "Town lattice portal bracing", "One-lane traffic"
- March 3, 2012: Added by Luke Harden
Related Bridges
- Long Meadow Bridge (Same project) - Long Meadow Bridge is the northern set of spans, now a pedestrian bridge
Sources
- Luke
- John Weeks Highways, Byways, And Bridge Photography - Image of the old bridge on the memorial plaque at the bike bridge.
- John Weeks Highways, Byways, And Bridge Photography
- Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
- Douglas Butler
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- 22 Jun 1953, Page 14 - Star Tribune at Newspapers.com
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Clarification to my previous post. The swing span over the Minnesota River was removed, but the fixed spans to the north remain, and are the ones being rebuilt. There is a pedestrian bridge adjacent to the current northbound highway 77 bridge (9600N) which provides a Minnesota River crossing.