Rating:
No votes cast
Military Road Bridge
Photos
Photo provided by Hank Zaletel
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
BH Photo #276122
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)
Update Log
- 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
Related Bridges
- Fremont Mill Bridge (Second Location) (Parts reused in)
Sources
- Luke
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Dana and Kay Klein
© Copyright 2021, Historic Bridge Foundation and contributors.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ia/jones/monticello/
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ia/jones/monticello/
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"