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Item Title
Sunset Bridge, Spanning Pomme de Terre River, Bolivar, Polk County, MO
LocationSpanning Pomme de Terre River,
Bolivar vicinity, MO
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER MO-27
Building/structure dates:
1885 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1931
Building/structure dates:
1930 subsequent work
Significance: This bridge holds the unofficial honor of being the first "iron" bridge to be built in Polk County. It is remarkable that although it is frail, by present standards, it has carried tremendous loads, far beyond its design capacity, for more than a century. Not many bridges have served for more than half a century in each of two locations. It was fabricated by the King Bridge and Manufacturing Company of Cleveland, Ohio.
Subjects
Civil EngineeringMoving Of StructuresRailroad Companies
Related Names
King Bridge & Manufacturing Company
Schleifer , Philli
Polk County Commission
Burns, P. M.
Neuhart, E. H.
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. VIEW TO WEST
2. VIEW TO NORTH-NORTHWEST
3. VIEW TO SOUTH
4. DECK SUPPORT SYSTEM, LOWER CHORD PANEL POINT CONNECTIONS, VIEW EAST-NORTHEAST
5. EAST PORTAL, VIEW TO EAST
6. WEST PORTAL, VIEW TO WEST
7. WEST PORTAL, VIEW TO EAST
8. DETAIL OF TRUSS PANELS, VIEW TO EAST
10. DETAIL OF DECK AND LOWER PANEL POINT CONNECTION
11. BEARING, SOUTHEAST CORNER
12. DETAIL OF VERTICAL MEMBER
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