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Brunswick Grand River Bridge
Description
This was the "Wagon Bridge", the longest free bridge in Missouri when built in 1906. The bridge was ordered closed in 1979 and collapsed in 1982.Facts
- Overview
- Lost three-span through truss bridge over Grand River at Brunswick
- Location
- Brunswick, Chariton County, Missouri, and Carroll County, Missouri
- Status
- Lost
- Design
- Three pin-connected, 8-panel Parker through trusses
- Also called
- Wagon Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.42064, -93.13092 (decimal degrees)
39°25'14" N, 93°07'51" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/488730/4363464 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Brunswick West
- Inventory number
- BH 38189 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 8, 2018: New photo from Dana and Kay Klein
- August 23, 2010: Updated by Eric Kinkhorst: Free, non toll
- August 15, 2010: Updated by Andy Schuette: Figured out which bridge this is.
- October 2, 2009: New photos from Eric Kinkhorst
- May 6, 2009: Updated by Eric Kinkhorst
- November 22, 2008: New photos from James Baughn
Sources
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
- Eric Kinkhorst - erick [dot] bud [at] gmail [dot] com
- Andy Schuette
- History of NE Missouri, by Walter Williams - A paragraph on the bridge.
- History of Brunswick. - A few mentions of the bridge, including the condemnation and collapse.
- Map of Brunswick with bridge - Map of Brunswick with bridge.
- Dana and Kay Klein
Comments
Brunswick Bridge
I have lived in Brunswick for over 30 years and remember this bridge. It was condemed on the Carroll Co. side for years but you could still drive across it. Sometime in the 1980s an ice flow took out the south side. It was dismantled shortly after but some of the railing is still in the river. That and some of the old pillings are still visible when the river is low. A couple of the piers are laying at the old entrance on Jackson St. My great uncle had the Coca Cola bottling plant right next to the bridge and we played on it as kids back in the 60s.
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Here are a few pictures of what is left. The big sign used to say "CONDEMED by order of the Carroll County Court"