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Sans Souci Bridge (Oldest)
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Bowstring through truss bridge over Cedar River on Lindale Avenue
- Location
- Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1872 at 4th Street; Relocated 1904; Replaced 1919
- Builders
- - Marsh Engineering Co. of Des Moines, Iowa (Relocators)
- Ohio Bridge Co. of Cleveland
- William Rezner (Patented Design)
- Design
- Bowstring through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.51143, -92.36504 (decimal degrees)
42°30'41" N, 92°21'54" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/552162/4706757 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Waterloo North
- Inventory number
- BH 56030 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 27, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- March 2, 2016: Updated by Nathan Holth: Added Rezner category.
- March 1, 2016: Updated by Luke: Added builder
- September 6, 2014: New photo from Luke
- April 14, 2013: Added by Luke Harden
Related Bridges
- Sans Souci Bridge (Old) (Successor)
- 4th Street Bridge (2nd) (Parts reused from)
Sources
- Luke
- Nathan Holth
- Geoff Hubbs
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Not to nitpick, but the name of the island is "Sans Souci".
French for "without worry".
The name must have been appropriate until the flood of 2008 caused much worry.
Now you can't build there anymore.