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Lincoln Highway Wapsipinicon River Bridge (Old)
Photos
Postcard
Photo provided by Hank Zaletel
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
BH Photo #244614
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pennsylvania through truss bridge over Wapsipinicon River on Lincoln Highway
- Location
- Clinton County, Iowa
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1896, Replaced 1930; Removed in the 1950s
- Builder
- - Clinton Bridge & Iron Works of Clinton, Iowa
- Design
- Pennsylvania through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.83230, -90.81075 (decimal degrees)
41°49'56" N, 90°48'39" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/681788/4633473 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Wheatland
- Inventory number
- BH 54920 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 25, 2022: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- May 16, 2015: Updated by Luke: Added category "Wooden deck"
- June 19, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added build date
- June 19, 2013: Updated by Jason Smith: Added category "Howe lattice portal bracing"
- June 18, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added builder
- December 15, 2012: Updated by John Marvig: corrected county
- December 15, 2012: Added by Luke Harden
Related Bridges
- Lincoln Highway Wapsipinicon River Bridge (Successor)
Sources
- Luke
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
- Iowa State University Geographic Information Systems - 1930s Aerial Imagery
- Geoff Hubbs
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After fiddling with the image a bit, I'm thinking 1886.
The first digit must be a "1".
The second could be either an "8" or a "9". I'm pretty sure I see a line that's slopes from the upper left to the lower right - making it an "8".
The third seem pretty clearly an "8" to me, with a line crossing in the center.
The fourth digit has a curve to the left from the top to the bottom - making in either a "6" or a "0". It looks to me like on the right the line curves in to intersect at the center making it a "6".
Here is the clearest of my "enhanced" images, cropped for just that area of the plaque.