Rating:
48895
{63}%
3 votes
Twin Falls Road Bridge
Photos
Looking northeast to Michigan
Photo taken by Robert Thompson in June 2011
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BH Photo #200967
Description
A pinned truss, with forged eyes on the diagonal bracing (see photos). The state boundary runs down the middle of the channel under this span. There seem to be no efforts being made to preserve this historic bridge.
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned bridge over Menominee River on Twin Falls Road (abandoned)
- Location
- Iron Mountain, Florence County, Wisconsin, and Dickinson County, Michigan
- Status
- Abandoned
- History
- Built in 1909 by the Central States Bridge Company of Indianapolis, IN
- Builder
- - Central States Bridge Co. of Indianapolis, Indiana
- Design
- A short Steel Pinned Camelback Through Truss with concrete deck.
- Dimensions
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Total length: 140.0 ft.
- Recognition
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Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 2012
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +45.87754, -88.07854 (decimal degrees)
45°52'39" N, 88°04'43" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/416302/5081006 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Randville
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 12001028 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 48895 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 2, 2012: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added date and builder
- June 12, 2011: Added by Robert Thompson
Hey,
Ya, this bridge is a result of the Town of Florence, Florence County Wisconsin and the Dickinson County Road Commission, Dickinson County Michigan not willing to come together and discuss what to do, each own half. They have taken the "do nothing" approach until it becomes a navagational hazard and the DNR orders it removed.
I have reciently nominated it to the Nation Register of Historical Places to hopefully gain public awareness and support. In my research I came across pictures of the concrete deck being poured and it is still the original concrete deck, so this "divide" goes back over a hundred years.
Seriously... they are willing to scrap the last on of its kind in Michigan or Wisconsin rather than form a joint committee and discuss the options......