Riverview Drive Swinging Bridge - Pontiac, IL
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Metro2
N 40° 52.600 W 088° 37.414
16T E 363198 N 4526335
This is one of three swinging bridges- all spanning the Vermillion River in Pontiac, Illinois.
Waymark Code: WMBQJH
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 06/13/2011
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member vhasler
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This pedestrian bridge is the first one listed on the town's tourism website (visit link) where we learn that the bridge
"connects Riverview Drive and Play Park. It was built in July 1898 by Joliet Bridge Company with an iron structure, 190 feet long and 4 feet wide and supported by cables swung from masonry piers. The current bridge is a wooden structure.
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