Eagle Point Bridge
Eagle Point Bridge | |
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Coordinates | 42°32′13″N 90°38′38″W / 42.537°N 90.644°W |
Carries | 2 lanes of US 61 / US 151 |
Crosses | Mississippi River |
Locale | Dubuque, Iowa, and Grant County, Wisconsin |
Maintained by | State of Iowa |
Characteristics | |
Design | Truss bridge |
History | |
Opened | 1902 |
Closed | 1983 |
Location | |
The Eagle Point Bridge was a very narrow two-lane
The bridge was located about 900 feet (270 m) south of Lock and Dam No. 11, at the northern edge of Rhomberg Avenue in Dubuque, and connected to Eagle Point Road on the opposite side of the river. It was about one mile (1.6 km) north of the present bridge. In 1968, the highway designation was removed from the bridge and a four-ton load limit was put in place.[3] The bridge was still structurally sound after the new bridge was built, leading some to ask the bridge be kept open as a pedestrian or special use bridge, but the state of Iowa still tore the bridge down.[4]
Several years after the demolition of the bridge, a restaurant known as the Tollbridge Inn was constructed at what was the Iowa end of the bridge. The restaurant operated for a number of years, until it was torn down to make way for future development.[5]
The bridge was extensively documented in 1982 for the
See also
- List of crossings of the Upper Mississippi River
- List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Iowa
- List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Wisconsin
Notes
- ^ "Eagle Point Bridge". John Weeks Website. Retrieved 2023-03-19.
- ^ "Eagle Point Bridge". Bridgehunter.com. Retrieved 2023-03-19.
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- ^ "Eagle Point Bridge". Encyclopedia Dubuque.
- ^ "TOLLBRIDGE INN (THE) - Encyclopedia Dubuque". www.encyclopediadubuque.org. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
External links
- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. IA-2, "Eagle Point Bridge, Dubuque, Dubuque County, IA", 81 photos, 39 data pages, 6 photo caption pages