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Branstetter Swinging Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost swinging bridge over Osage River, southwest of Warsaw
- Location
- Benton County, Missouri
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Built 1924 for $8,500
- Design
- Wire suspension
- Dimensions
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Total length: 600.0 ft.
- Also called
- Peal Bend Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.19555, -93.39722 (decimal degrees)
38°11'44" N, 93°23'50" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/465217/4227587 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Warsaw West
- Land survey
- T. 40 N., R. 22 W., Sec. 31
- Inventory number
- BH 20848 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Comments
Branstetter Swinging Bridge
This bridge was also known as the Peal Bend Bridge. Joe Dice built this bridge in 1912 on the downstream end of what was called Peal Bend on the Osage River.
It was 600' long had wooden towers and cost $8,500. In 1924, a tornado(the same storm that took out the original Upper Bridge?) blew down on of the towers. Apparently, the bridge was rebuilt.
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I've attached a picture of what I think to be the Branstetter (Peal Bend) Swinging Bridge. Notice the steel tower on the far side. The Peal Bend Bridge had a tower severely damaged by a tornado in the 1920's so it stands to reason this could be the same bridge.