The Turtleville Iron Bridge is an overhead truss bridge built in 1887 where South Lathers Road crosses Turtle Creek near Beloit, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.[1][2]
Turtleville Iron Bridge | |
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| Location | near Beloit, Wisconsin |
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| Coordinates | 42°33′56″N 88°57′53″W / 42.5655615°N 88.9645949°W |
| Area | 0.2 acres (0.081 ha) |
| Built | 1887 |
| Built by | Wisconsin Bridge and Iron Company |
| Architectural style | Pratt Truss |
| NRHP reference No. | 77000053[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 15, 1977 |
Turtleville was settled in 1838, growing around a dam and mill and once including a distillery, a store, a blacksmith shop, a school, church, and the once-elegant Hodson House.[3] Turtleville has since withered into a ghost town, but the cemetery and bridge survive from that era.[4]
The bridge is a single-span, 141-foot-long (43 m),[2] Pratt truss bridge built by the Wisconsin Bridge and Iron Company, and is perhaps one of its earlier truss bridges. The structure includes eye bars, pin connections, counter rods with turnbuckles, and a wooden deck. Around 1890 bridge construction was transitioning from wrought iron to steel, and the bridge is a rare surviving example of the earlier technology.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "Turtleville Iron Bridge". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 21, 2021.
- ^ "William Hodson". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 21, 2021.
- ^ a b Danko, George M.; Douglas, Nancy Belle; Anderson, Donald N. (August 27, 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Turtleville Iron Bridge / Lathers Road Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved March 22, 2018. With two photos from 1976.
External links
edit- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. WI-4, "Turtleville Iron Bridge, Spanning Turtle Creek, on Lathers Road, Beloit, Rock County, WI", 8 photos, 5 data pages, 1 photo caption page