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Twin Bridges
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Upper Iowa River on Road
- Location
- Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa
- Status
- Collapsed and replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1878; collapsed 1980
- Builder
- - Wrought Iron Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +43.30883, -91.77543 (decimal degrees)
43°18'32" N, 91°46'32" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/599311/4795839 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Decorah
- Inventory number
- BH 55710 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 24, 2014: Updated by Luke: GPS Fix per info from Don
- March 4, 2013: Added by Luke Harden
Comments
Twin Bridges
The 5th street bridge area is apparently locally called Twin Bridges.
Twin Bridges
I think this is from this bridge http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cast-iron-Bridge-sign-from-Decorah-I...
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Re: Bridge plaque,
I hate to disappoint you but the plaque mentioned here did NOT belong to the Twin Bridges. In fact it is unlikely that Horton even did business with Winneshiek County at all. Wrought Iron Bridge Company built almost all of the county's bridges along the Upper Iowa and Turkey Rivers, including the Twin Bridges, which were erected in 1878. The county engineer has the plaque of that bridge and according to information, when the bridge collapsed in 1980, parts of the bridge were reused on the Upper Bluffton Bridge NW of Decorah (which is now gone). Horton however built numerous bridges in neighboring Fayette County, and that is where I believe that plaque came from.
JS