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I&L - Dickerson Creek Stone Arch Bridge
Description
I'm trying to find history on this bridge. I know it has to be from the late 1800s. When I was out there the water was to high and to cold to be in to get a REALLY good look at things.Facts
- Overview
- Stone arch bridge over Dickerson Creek on abandoned Ionia and Lansing Railroad
- Location
- Ionia County, Michigan
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- Railroads
- - Detroit, Grand Rapids & Western Railroad (DGR&W)
- Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad (DL&N)
- Ionia & Lansing Railroad (I&L)
- Pere Marquette Railway (PM)
- Design
- Stone arch
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +43.10773, -85.20787 (decimal degrees)
43°06'28" N, 85°12'28" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/645819/4774336 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Belding
- Land survey
- T. 8 N., R. 8 W., Sec. 1
- Elevation
- 770 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 48715 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 31, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Edited entry & added categories
- December 2, 2011: Updated by Clark Vance: Added topo map info
- December 2, 2011: Updated by Luke Harden: Found info on nathan's site, linked it to the page,
- December 2, 2011: Updated by Frank Hicks: Added GPS coordinates
- April 28, 2011: Added by John Berry
Sources
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- John Berry - jberry3479 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Frank Hicks
- Luke
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mi/ionia/bh48715/
Based on this history of the railroad line, I would place this bridge as being built in or at least around 1870:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionia_and_Lansing_Railroad
Happy 150!