The Second Street Bridge
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N 42° 31.569 W 085° 50.892
16T E 594600 N 4708839
The Second Street Bridge
Selected by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the world's greatest civil engineering achievements.
Waymark Code: WMWM2
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 10/28/2006
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This simply ornamented wrought-iron bridge was built in 1886. It replaced an earlier wooden one that had begun to fall into disrepair . Designed by the King Iron Bridge Manufacturing Company of Cleveland Ohio the double-intersection Pratt truss bridge was completed at a cost of $7,532.25 Eighteen feet wide and spanning 225 feet of the Kalamazoo River it is one of the largest extant bridges designed by the firm. Following battle by city officials and local citizens to save the bridge from demolition, it was restored a cost of $552,000 in 1983. The bridge was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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