Flensburg Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Bowstring through truss bridge over Little Wabash River on TR 299
- Location
- Effingham County, Illinois
- Status
- Abandoned with deck missing
- History
- Built 1882
- Builder
- - King Bridge Co. of Cleveland, Ohio
- Design
- Bowstring through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 118.1 ft.
Total length: 174.9 ft.
Deck width: 13.5 ft.
- Also called
- Little Wabash River Bowstring Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.93823, -88.54915 (decimal degrees)
38°56'18" N, 88°32'57" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/365736/4311063 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Hord
- Inventory numbers
- IL 025-3131 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 38981 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 6, 2019: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- October 29, 2018: New photos from Elliott Johnson
- September 4, 2010: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Changed name
- August 30, 2010: Updated by Nathan Holth: Added builder.
- May 17, 2009: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Name, Status, Design and GPS
- April 18, 2009: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Design
- January 31, 2009: Added by Robert Stephenson
Sources
- Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Nathan Holth
- Local historians want to preserve, relocate bowstring bridge | Local News | effinghamdailynews.com
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- Elliott Johnson - elliottsgon15 [at] hotmail [dot] com
Comments
I was just there yesterday. Its a shame all the decking boards have been removed but still it is something to see. like the other guys messaging I remember traveling across as a child.
This very bridge is still intact. Jared talked of a truck that had fell threw its decking as a little boy of 10 or so I seen that said truck on the bank of the river was a lime truck headed to my grandfathers farm ground on the west side of the river I have heard tales that this bridge structure is 100+ years old and drove tractors and walked across this bridge many times in my youth
I spent many a childood summer here with my brother and father. While I don't look at this bridge with the same midset bridge enthusiasts do, I can't help but remember those days. I remember when a neighboring farmer unwisely drove to heavy a load over her and destroyed her; so I thought at the time, however it may be also why they closed the road and allowed the bridge to remain to this day. Strange how things work out and how a mind can change. God Bless
WOW, what a great find! A classic example of a King Bridge Co. Bowstring.
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From the Decatur Herald dated May 7 1964...