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First Hannibal Bridge
Timeline
Researched 04/24/2008
1867
Octave Chanute designs bridge for growing Kansas City area
1868
Construction begins on a a five span swinging bridge though truss bridge
1869
Bridge opens, becomes first bridge on the Missouri River at Kansas City
1887
Tornado strikes bridge, center span collapses
1888
Bridge spans replaced, reopened
1916
Bridge needing replacment, closed to all traffic
1917
Second Hannibal Bridge built, First Hannibal Bridge torn down
Facts
- Overview
- Lost through truss bridge over Missouri River on Railroad in Kansas City
- Location
- Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, and Clay County, Missouri
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Built 1869 under the direction of Octave Chanute; damaged by tornado in 1887, replaced 1917 by the Second Hannibal Bridge
- Builders
- - George S. Morison of New Bedford, Massachusetts (Assistant Engineer)
- Jacob H. Linville of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Main Span Designer)
- Keystone Bridge Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Superstructure Contractor)
- Octave Chanute of Paris, France (Chief Engineer)
- Vipond & Walker of Kansas City, Missouri (Masonry Contractor)
- Railroad
- - Hannibal & St. Joseph Railway
- Design
- Linville-Piper variant Whipple through truss.
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 363.0 ft.
Total length: 1,400.0 ft.
- Also called
- Burlington Bridge
Hannibal Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.11310, -94.58772 (decimal degrees)
39°06'47" N, 94°35'16" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/362732/4330527 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Kansas City
- Inventory number
- BH 36474 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 12, 2020: New photos from Nick Schmiedeler
- September 24, 2018: New photo from Douglas Butler
- September 20, 2016: New photos from Dave King
- January 22, 2016: New photos from Gene Smania
- January 19, 2016: Updated by Nathan Holth: Added builders, engineers, dimensions.
- November 14, 2011: Updated by Clark Vance: Placed on map
- November 13, 2010: New photo from Paul Hamby
- August 4, 2010: New photo from Eric Kinkhorst
- January 6, 2010: New photos from Eric Kinkhorst
- January 5, 2010: New photos from Eric Kinkhorst
- October 22, 2009: New photos from David Smothers
- February 15, 2009: New photo from Mark Frazier
- April 27, 2008: Updated by Max Johnson
- April 24, 2008: Essay added by Max Johnson
- April 23, 2008: Added by Max Johnson
Related Bridges
- Second Hannibal Bridge (Successor)
Sources
- Mark Frazier - mfrazier404 [at] gmail [dot] com
- David Smothers - davidsupreme [at] embarqmail [dot] com
- Eric Kinkhorst - erick [dot] bud [at] gmail [dot] com
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
- Picture from 1903 flood at KC Library
- Historical Book - Chanute and Mason book done better in the KC Library link
- Nathan Holth
- Kansas City Public Library KCHistory.org - History of the bridge
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Kansas City landing - Early KC history including photos of the first bridge. Professor Richard Gentile details the geology that made Kansas City a successful landing.
- Douglas Butler
- The Kansas City Bridge by Octave Chanute and George Mason - The complete book as well as separate scans of all the illustrations at KC Public Library.
- Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
Comments
First Hannibal Bridge
Here is some good reading
http://www.kchistory.org/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/Buil...
First Hannibal Bridge
I am assuming this was a wooden thru truss?
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mo/jackson/first-hannibal/
A detailed book about construction of this bridge is here: https://books.google.com/books?id=InEOAAAAYAAJ&printsec=fron... and from that I noted that famous engineer George Morison acted as assistant engineer on this bridge, and famous bridge builder Keystone Bridge Co. erected the superstructure.