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TITLE:
Yellow River Bridge, Spanning Chippewa River on County Trunk T, Arthur, Chippewa County, WI
CALL NUMBER:
HAER WIS,9-ART,1-
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]
MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 4 (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 9 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1
DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.
CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
RELATED NAME(S):
Modern Steel Structures Company
NOTE:
Survey number HAER WI-28
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-11).
Building/structure dates: 1908 initial construction
Building/structure dates: 1919
Significance: The Modern Steel Structures Company of Waukesha constructed the Yellow River Bridge across the Chippewa River in 1908. The firm, incorporated in 1900, developed the most modern and complete steel structural plant in the West. Between 1916 and 1918, the Wisconsin-Minnesota Power & Light Company built a hydroelectric dam four miles downstream from the bridge, putting the site under water. The townships of Eagle Point and Arthur arranged to have the 486-foot span dismantled and re-erected 15 miles upstream near the village of Cobban. The Cast Stone Construction Company, in Eau Claire, installed the new concrete substructure. Crombley and Thailacker, a Milwaukee bridge-building firm, apparently erected the steel work. The Yellow River Bridge is the oldest of four Pennsylvania truss bridges remaining in Wisconsin.
SUBJECTS:
WISCONSIN--Chippewa County--Arthur
OTHER TITLE:
Cobban Bridge
COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.wi0194
CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. LONG VIEW OF BRIDGE, LOOKING SOUTH
2. ELEVATION, LOOKING WEST
3. VIEW OF BRIDGE FROM MID-DECK, LOOKING WEST
4. OBLIQUE VIEW OF BRIDGE, LOOKING WEST
CONTROL #:
WI0194
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