Black River Bascule Bridge

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File:Seventh Street-Black River Bridge.jpg

Photo taken by Notorious4life

View this photo at en.m.wikipedia.org

BH Photo #275851

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Description

John A Waddell specializes in designing vertical lift bridges designed some bascule bridges had a clash with Joseph B Strauss who specializes in designing bascule bridges also developed vertical lift bridges.

Facts

Overview: Bascule bridge over Black River on 7th Street Erie Street in Port Huron
Location: Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1933
Builders: - J.A.L. Waddell of Port Hope, Canada
- Wisconsin Bridge & Iron Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Design: Bascule
Dimensions: Total length: 272.3 ft.
Recognition: Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on February 4, 2000
Approximate latitude, longitude: +42.97680, -82.42732 (decimal degrees)
42°58'36" N, 82°25'38" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 17/383617/4759226 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Port Huron
Inventory numbers: MINBI 775550020261B01 (Michigan bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory 2010 and before)
MINEW 10256 (Michigan bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory 2011 and later)
NRHP 00000045 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 20229 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Update Log

December 23, 2019: New Street View added by Mike Kerkau
January 14, 2016: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
November 30, 2015: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
March 5, 2014: New photos from Douglas Butler
February 24, 2014: Updated by Dave King: Mapped, imported photo & NRHP info

Related Bridges

Black River Swing Bridge (Old) (Successor)

Sources

Michigan DOT Historic Bridges - 7th St. Bridge page of the MDOT Historical Bridges listings
Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
Douglas Butler
Mike Kerkau - mjkerkau [at] gmail [dot] com