Bowen Mill Bridge, Spanning Pine River on County Trunk Highway AA, Richland Center vicinity, Richland County, WI

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10 b&w photos
16 data pages
1 photo caption pages

TITLE:
Bowen Mill Bridge, Spanning Pine River on County Trunk Highway AA, Richland Center vicinity, Richland County, WI

CALL NUMBER:
HAER WIS,52-RICH.V,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 10 (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 15 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER WI-67

Building/structure dates: 1907 initial construction

Building/structure dates: 1966 subsequent work

Significance: The Bowen Mill Bridge is a Pratt through truss. It was erected in 1907, and re-erected at its present location in 1966. Of the thirty-two Pratt through truss bridges identified by the Wisconsin Historic Bridge Advisory Committee as having been built between 1895 and 1910, eight were identified in Cultural Resource Management in Wisconsin, the state's manual for historic properties, as the best examples of that bridge type. The Bowen Mill Bridge is one of those eight, and the only one in southwestern Wisconsin. It is locally significant, therefore, as a unique example of this type and period of construction in Richland County specifically, and southwestern Wisconsin in general.

SUBJECTS:
WISCONSIN--Richland County--Richland Center vicinity

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.wi0275

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. VIEW TO NORTHWEST. SUBJECT BRIDGE AND ITS SETTING.
2. VIEW TO WEST NORTHWEST.
3. VIEW TO NORTH NORTHWEST.
4. VIEW TO EAST SOUTHEAST
5. VIEW TO NORTHWEST
6. VIEW TO NORTHWEST. PORTAL STRUT
7. VIEW TO NORTH. PORTAL CONNECTION
8. VERTICAL, TOP CHORD, TOP STRUT AND SWAY BRACING CONNECTION
9. VIEW TO NORTH. VERTICALS
10. VIEW TO NORTHWEST. DECK WITH MACADAM OVERLAY

CONTROL #:
WI0275

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