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1st Avenue Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Whipple through truss bridge over Rock River on 1st Avenue
- Location
- Sterling, Whiteside County, Illinois
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1878; replaced 1923
- Builder
- - Wrought Iron Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio
- Design
- Six-span, pin-connected, 12-panel Whipple through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.78482, -89.69276 (decimal degrees)
41°47'05" N, 89°41'34" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/276233/4629391 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Sterling
- Inventory number
- BH 67602 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 19, 2022: Updated by Paul Plassman: Added categories "Lattice Railing", "Stone piers", "Finials"
- January 29, 2022: Updated by Paul Plassman: Added build date
- November 25, 2018: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- February 26, 2017: New photo from Dana and Kay Klein
- January 19, 2017: New photo from Dana and Kay Klein
- May 16, 2015: Updated by Tony Dillon: Changed truss type
- May 16, 2015: Added by Luke
Related Bridges
- Sterling-Rock Falls Bridge (Successor)
Sources
- Luke
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- Paul Plassman
- Sterling-Rock Falls Historical Society - Build date
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The ca. 1910 postcard reveals that an endcap and finial had already gone missing. I like the fact that the postcard was intellectually honest about this.