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Wrought Iron Bridge Company specialized in relatively short-span iron truss bridges. Most were built for highway use, as the railroads were all privately owned at the time and employed their own engineers. The company supplied a catalog of bridge designs and mass-produced the parts to build these
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Wrought Iron Bridge were able to assemble their bridges very quickly and the pamphlet claims that they "have completed 100 to 140 foot spans at points from 100 to 300 miles distant from our works in 8 to 15 days." They were not quite as fast on larger bridges, but the "350 foot bridge, 38 foot wide,
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Illustrated pamphlet of wrought iron bridges built by
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Westernville Road Bridge, Mohawk River, Rome, New York, 1884
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640:"Survey Report for Historic Bridges: Chapter 3-Bridge Companies"
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721:"Rough Holler Bridge regains a missing piece of its history"
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Indiana, Circa 1880
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132:Illustration of a single intersection Pratt truss
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767:Wrought Iron Bridge Co. photographs, 1872-1874
751:. Canton, Ohio. Retrieved July 7, 2009, from
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749:Illustrated Pamphlet of Wrought Iron Bridges
95:. It specialized in the fabrication of iron
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689:"TOWN TRAVELS: The Van Buren Street bridge"
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330:Lattice Road Bridge, Hume, New York, 1887
535:Wells Street Bridge, Fort Wayne, Indiana
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109:National Register of Historic Places
464:Wrought Iron Bridge Company Gallery
672:Burdette, Dwight (June 25, 2010).
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475:Sign, Wrought Iron Bridge Company
747:Wrought Iron Bridge Co. (1882).
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376:Delaware Township, New Jersey
162:Blue Earth County, Minnesota
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381:Masemore Road Bridge, near
81:Wrought Iron Bridge Company
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487:Walnut River bridge, near
401:Walnut River Bridge, near
364:Rough Holler Bridge, near
288:Brunswick County, Virginia
178:West Liberty Bridge CR-225
769:digitized photo album at
601:Bradley County, Tennessee
168:Blackfriars Street Bridge
578:Rockafellows Mill Bridge
413:Rockafellows Mill Bridge
334:East Mineral Road Bridge
325:Hillsborough, New Jersey
229:Dearborn County, Indiana
205:Poffenberger Road Bridge
725:Springfield News-Leader
507:Scio Township, Michigan
258:Scio Township, Michigan
105:American Bridge Company
522:Barton Hills, Michigan
242:Jackson Junction, Iowa
199:Barton Hills, Michigan
146:New Philadelphia, Ohio
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58:David Hammond, founder
707:"Application Failure"
615:Linville Creek Bridge
520:Maple/Foster Bridge,
407:Butler County, Kansas
389:Linville Creek Bridge
361:, West Virginia, 1891
225:Laughery Creek Bridge
197:Maple/Foster Bridge,
188:County Line Bowstring
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560:Nevius Street Bridge
424:Renwick Road) Bridge
317:Nevius Street Bridge
219:Emmitsburg, Maryland
564:Raritan, New Jersey
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268:Fort Wayne, Indiana
264:Wells Street Bridge
209:Jefferson, Maryland
182:Morrow County, Ohio
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442:Howell, New Jersey
311:Freeport, Illinois
294:Chain Lakes Bridge
274:Pott's Ford Bridge
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355:Aetnaville Bridge
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43:Headquarters
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780:Categories
758:Structurae
742:References
730:2018-10-24
428:Plainfield
298:Palo, Iowa
54:Key people
626:Citations
383:Baltimore
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103:into the
597:Hopewell
432:Illinois
359:Wheeling
115:Products
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