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Military Road Bridge

Jones County, Iowa

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Photo provided by Hank Zaletel

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

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Facts 

Overview
Lost Bowstring through truss bridge over Maquoketa River on Military Road
Location
Monticello, Jones County, Iowa
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
History
Built 1873; Relocated to Buffalo Creek 1930; Moved to a park in 1985
Builders
- James Milne of Scotch Grove, Iowa (Substructure)
- Massillon Bridge Co. of Massillon, Ohio
Design
Bowstring through truss
Also called
Fremont Mill Bridge (1930 Location)
Approximate latitude, longitude
+42.24385, -91.17972   (decimal degrees)
42°14'38" N, 91°10'47" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/650177/4678455 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Monticello
Inventory number
BH 59958 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (7,754)
Bowstring through truss (281)
Bowstring truss (560)
Built 1873 (99)
Built during 1870s (1,142)
Iowa (6,563)
James Milne (1)
Jones County, Iowa (55)
Lost (25,749)
Lost 1930 (88)
 Lost during 1930s (694)
Maquoketa River (63)
Massillon Bridge Co. (144)
Military Road (3)
Monticello, Iowa (4)
Pin-connected (3,979)
Replaced by new bridge (17,389)
Through truss (15,460)
Truss (33,424)
Wooden deck (6,101)

Update Log 

  • May 20, 2021: Updated by Luke: Added category "Military Road"
  • May 19, 2021: Updated by Doug K: Removed category "Military Road"
  • June 13, 2019: New photo from Dana and Kay Klein
  • February 26, 2014: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added builder
  • February 26, 2014: Added by Luke Harden

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Military Road Bridge
Posted May 20, 2021, by Luke

Back in Ye Olde Times, roads constructed by the military for the ease of troop movements were called Military Roads.

This (And several other entries on the site) were part of said "Military Road" "system"

Monticello Bridge
Posted November 5, 2014, by Luke

There really ought to be a "status" tied to the relocated category.

Same goes for "in storage" category

"Replaced but relocated elsewhere"

"Replaced but placed into storage"

Monticello Bridge
Posted November 5, 2014, by Tony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

This looks to be a historic photo of the now Fremont Mill Bridge at it's original location on the Military Road in Monticello... So, technically it's not lost!