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Archer Avenue Swing Bridge
Photo
Archer Swing Bridge
Photo taken in 1902
DN-0000188, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum.
BH Photo #260969
Description
Combination wood-iron swing bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Bowstring through truss bridge over South Fork of South Branch Chicago River on Archer Avenue
- Location
- McKinley Park, Cook County, Illinois
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1870 to replace earlier bridge of unknown type, replaced 1906
- Design
- Bowstring through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.83870, -87.66401 (decimal degrees)
41°50'19" N, 87°39'50" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/444869/4632080 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Englewood
- Inventory number
- BH 57371 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 26, 2013: Added by Frank Hicks