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Old Pearl Street Bridge
Description
"The Pearl Street bridge is one of the oldest and largest iron truss bridges in the state. It was created by the now-defunct Milwaukee Bridge and Ironworks Co., a major bridge builder in the Midwest at the time." (Chicago Tribune, July 7, 1997 article by Maryan Koehler)Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over a branch of Fox River on Pedestrian path
- Location
- Prairie Grove, McHenry County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- History
- Built 1881 over Fox River on Pearl Street in McHenry IL, relocated to Terra Cotta Industries Nov. 1976, two of three original sections in storage
- Builder
- - Milwaukee Bridge & Iron Works of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.27374, -88.28747 (decimal degrees)
42°16'25" N, 88°17'15" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/393831/4680972 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- McHenry
- Inventory number
- BH 53547 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 5, 2019: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- November 22, 2018: New photos from Melissa Brand-Welch
- May 16, 2014: New Street View added by Tony Dillon
- February 13, 2014: New photos from Steve Conro
- September 15, 2012: Added by Frank Hicks
Sources
- Frank Hicks
- Chicago Tribune - Rescued Bridge Still Has Future To Span, Thanks To Private Firm
- Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- The Building of the Iron Pearl Street Bridge – MPLD Local History Blog - The first “formal” bridge in McHenry that spanned the Fox River was located at Pearl Street, just east of Riverside Drive (known as Water Street in the 1880s). Bridges or ferries had been at this location before McHenry was even settled in the 18
- Pearl Street Bridge - Article mentions this bridge
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Art, I read the other two spans were stored after the move but I have no information on their current location or existence.