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Broadway Street Bridge (1908)
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Parker Pony truss bridge over St Joseph River on Broadway Street
- Location
- Union City, Branch County, Michigan
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Replaced bridge lost after March 1907 flood
- Design
- Parker pony truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.06584, -85.13418 (decimal degrees)
42°03'57" N, 85°08'03" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/654366/4658770 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Union City
- Inventory number
- BH 76007 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 11, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- August 30, 2020: Updated by Geoff Hubbs: Updated history
- March 22, 2019: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added truss type
- December 6, 2018: New photo from Dana and Kay Klein
- March 9, 2017: Added by Dana and Kay Klein
Related Bridges
- Broadway Street Bridge (Pre 1908) (Predecessor)
- Broadway Bridge (1978) (Successor)
Sources
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Geoff Hubbs
- The Broadway Bridge - Union City Heritage Water Trail
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In attempting to find whether the three bridges listed for this location could be directly linked in order, I found an extensive photo collection to that effect. (For me, the main question was whether the Parker truss was directly followed by the 1978 beam.)
In other words, Yes - and then some.