Photos
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View Of Bridge From Highway, Looking West Photo taken by Martin Stupich, June 17, 1987 for HAER |
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Detail View Of Bridge, Showing Keystone With '1878', Looking West Photo taken by Martin Stupich, June 17, 1987 for HAER |
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Oblique View Of Bridge From Stepped Abutment, Looking Northwest Photo taken by Martin Stupich, June 17, 1987 for HAER |
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View Of Southeast Abutment, Looking South Photo taken by Martin Stupich, June 17, 1987 for HAER |
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West Elevation The Goette Road Bridge is actually on Halweg Road, about a half mile east of Goette Road. Photo taken by J.R. Manning in June 2009 |
Facts
- Overview
- Stone arch bridge over Halweg Road on Wisconsin & Southern Railroad
- Location
- Town of Merrimac, Sauk County, Wisconsin
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1878 by the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
- Design
- A rock-faced, sandstone arch bridge with a single arch that springs 2 feet above grade and rises 12 feet over a span of 24 feet. There are step-staired wing walls on both sides. The elongated keystone is 2 feet in height. It is Wisconsin's earliest known single-vault, stone-arch railroad bridge. (The oldest stone arch bridge in the state is the Tiffany Stone Bridge in Turtle, Wisconsin.)
- Dimensions
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Total length: 41.0 ft.
Deck width: 36 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- Bridge No. 344
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +43.39303, -89.68209 (decimal degrees)
43°23'35" N, 89°40'56" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/282781/4807955 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Baraboo
- Inventory number
- BH 34935 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
- 30
Update Log
- June 22, 2009: Updated by J.R. Manning
- June 4, 2009: Updated by J.R. Manning: Corrected GPS coordinates, location and added to "Railroad" category
- August 2, 2008: New photos from J.R. Manning
Sources
- HAER WI-39 - Chicago & North Western Railway Bridge No. 344, Spanning Goette Road, Merrimac vicinity, Sauk County, WI
- J.R. Manning - thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net