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Barber Creek Bridge
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Barber Creek Bridge
Photo taken on February 11, 1916.
Photo taken by David Sebben
BH Photo #414881
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Bowstring truss bridge over Barber Creek on road
- Location
- Port Byron, Rock Island County, Illinois
- Status
- Collapsed
- History
- People's Power Company Truck fell through the bridge & replaced 1916
- Builder
- - King Bridge Co. of Cleveland, Ohio (Possible)
- Design
- Bowstring pony truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.59378, -90.33507 (decimal degrees)
41°35'38" N, 90°20'06" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/722110/4608106 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Port Byron
- Inventory number
- BH 52422 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 25, 2019: New photo from Dana and Kay Klein
- December 25, 2017: New photo from David Sebben
- May 10, 2012: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added truss type
- May 10, 2012: Added by Luke Harden
Sources
- Luke
- UMV Photo Archive - Augustana College Special Collections - Image #1
- UMV Photo Archive - Augustana College Special Collections - Image #2
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Dana and Kay Klein
- David Sebben
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Looks to me like it's a bowstring pony truss. It's the diagonals members that make it a truss, and I see those.
The details are hard to see, but it sure looks like it could be one built by King Iron Bridge & Mfg Co. From http://kingbridgeco.com/siapaper.html it seems he was pretty busy building bridges in the late 1800s. So if the photos were from 1916, the bowstring bridge could be 40 years old.
I do agree that it appears they are removing the bowstring after installing the concrete bridge. Notice the coursed stonework abutment. It sure looks older than the concrete.