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Shaw Town Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost through truss bridge over Chippewa River on Short Street
- Location
- Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- Design
- Through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +44.79358, -91.53535 (decimal degrees)
44°47'37" N, 91°32'07" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/615850/4961063 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 97803 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Related Bridges
- Short Street Bridge (Successor)
Comments
Shaw Town Bridge
One postcard ad claims this was the wooden truss bridge.
Shaw Town Bridge
This article gives some interesting history on the Shawtown Bridge, although I'm not quite sure what to make of the dates as it seems to indicate that the 1884-1925 bridge at the site was a large wooden truss rather than the metal span pictured in the postcard on this page.
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Property/HI41817?ms...
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/wi/eau-claire/shaw-town/
It looks to me like a regular iron/steel truss with a wooden deck rather than an actual timber truss, but I could be wrong as the photo is not real close up.