Valley City – North Dakota’s City of Bridges

Guest column who recently joined BHC. He visited Valley City a few years ago and wrote a tour article on the bridges in and around the city, located between Fargo and Jamestown. Enjoy! 🙂

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Valley City, North Dakota.

Less than one hour’s drive westbound on I-94 from our home in Fargo, the City of Bridges beckons. Our reason to travel to Valley City on this occasion was to find the first National Scenic Highway in North Dakota. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be featuring images captured on that drive. The Sheyenne River Valley National Scenic Byway winds its way through the river valley that is its namesake. A couple of the 27 stops on the byway are found in the city of Valley City. But I digress… Let’s begin our trip through the City of Bridges.

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BHC Pic of the Week Nr. 91

Looks can be deceiving in this week’s Pic of the Week. This photo was taken in August 2011 and showed a car that wanted to cross this historic through truss bridge, only to be stopped by a Road Closed sign and a bunch of weeds. A tunnel view shot with some colorful reactions from the driver, which starts with …………

You finish the sentence.  😉

About the bridge itself, the Pratt through truss structure spanned the East Branch of the Des Moines River just off US Hwy. 169 north of the Humboldt-Kossuth County line. It was built in 1895 by the King Bridge Company of Cleveland, Ohio and was one of only a handful of bridges left in the state of Iowa that was built directly by Zenas King. His son George E. King established his bridge building company in Des Moines and was responsible for dozens more, many of them are still standing today.  Closed in 2010, the structure was removed during the Winter 2016/17.  More information and photos of the bridge can be found here.

 

Gillespie Dam Bridge

Journeys with Johnbo

Arlington, Arizona.

On one of our hikes, I was visiting with a hiker friend about places to visit that are “off the beaten path”, places that avoid the hustle and fast paced Interstate highways. Our friend, Leenie told us about just such a place, the Gillespie Dam Bridge. She and her “biker friends” find many of these out-of-the-way places to simply enjoy the journey.

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Over a thousand years ago Esztergom became the Hungarian capital. It continued in that role for two and a half centuries before the Mongols arrived bringing with them an apocalypse on horseback. Soon thereafter, Esztergom was reduced to ruin. The Mongol occupation of Hungary only lasted a year before they disappeared back into the dust […]

via The Great Facilitator – Maria Valeria Bridge in Esztergom: Bridging The Divide (For The Love of Hungary Part 26) — Europe Between East And West

BHC Newsflyer: 27 March 2020

Goodspeed Swing Bridge in Haddam, CT. Photo taken by Denimadept for wikiCommons

 

To listen to the podcast, click onto this link: https://anchor.fm/jason-smith-bhc19/episodes/BHC-Newsflyer-March-27–2020-ec0re0

 

Headlines:

Attempted Derailing of Train at Theisstal Viaduct in Niederhausen (Hesse)

Links:

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/ice-haette-bruecke-hinunterstuerzen-koennen-li.79180

Bridge Info: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thei%C3%9Ftalbr%C3%BCcke (Includes a motorway viaduct)

 

Poole Lifting Bridge in Dorset crushes van.

Links:

Article:  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-52039653

Bridge Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poole_Bridge

 

Historic Bridges in Warwickshire, England to get a Makeover

Links:

Articles: https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/funding-14th-century-bridges-make-17954322  &  https://www.stratford-herald.com/107216-bridges-get-funds-repairs.html

Tour Guide: https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/subject/bridges-viaducts-travel-transport

 

Goodspeed Swing Bridge to be Rehabilitated. Sidewalk a possibility?

Links:

Article: https://ctexaminer.com/2020/03/23/major-repair-of-goodspeed-bridge-slated-for-2022-plans-for-pedestrian-crossing-as-yet-unfunded/

Bridge Info: http://bridgehunter.com/ct/middlesex/1138/

 

Truss Bridge Partially Collapses in Illinois

Link: http://bridgehunter.com/il/mclean/virginia-avenue/

 

Waterville Truss Bridge Gone!

Link: http://bridgehunter.com/oh/wood/8702462/

 

Medicine Creek Bridge in Osgood, MO to be Replaced.

Links:

Project: https://www.modot.org/sullivan-county-route-pp-east-medicine-creek-bridge

Bridge Info: http://bridgehunter.com/mo/sullivan/medicine-pp/

 

Ongoing 10th Anniversary Campaign:

First Bridge Photo (new)

Weirdest Encounter while Bridgehunting

 

The Bridges of Connersville, Indiana

Willowbrook Country Club Bridge. Photo taken by Ed Hollowell in 2018

Located on the Whitewater River in southeastern Indiana, Connersville, with a population of 13,200 inhabitants, may be considered a county seat of Fayette County and a typical community located deep in the plains of Indiana. The town was founded by and named after John Conner in 1813 and much of the historic downtown remains in tact to this day.

Yet little do many realize is Connersville was once home to one of the longest covered bridges in the state, a Burr Arch Covered Bridge that had once spanned the Whitewater. It has a restored covered bridge at Roberts Park and an aqueduct that had once provided water to the community.

Lastly, it had been served by a passenger railroad company, the Indianapolis and Cincinnati Traction Company (ICT), whose existence lasted for only three decades due to financial issues, but whose bridges still exist in and around Connersville.

This tour guide shows you which bridges you can see while visiting Connersville. It features a film from HYB on the bridges by ICT which includes the railroad’s history.  It also includes a tour guide of the other bridges, courtesy of bridgehunter.com.

So sit back and enjoy this film clip. 🙂

 

You can click onto the link which will take you to the bridges of Connersville below:

http://bridgehunter.com/category/city/connersville-indiana/

Information on the Indianapolis and Cincinnati Traction Line bridges are here and the company itself here.

 

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Fort Morgan, Colorado. In 1922, the Colorado Bridge and Construction Company began constructing a multi-span, reinforced concrete arch bridge across the South Platte River in eastern Colorado. The bridge was completed in 1923 and named The Rainbow Arch Bridge. Located adjacent to State Highway 52 and a much newer set of highway bridges, the Rainbow […]

via Fort Morgan – Historic Rainbow Arch Bridge — Journeys with Johnbo

BHC Pic of the Week Nr. 90

Despite being on lockdown, we took an opportunity to go for a walk to get some fresh air, one of the few exceptions we were allowed to do. Since Monday we were only allowed to go shopping, go to a doctor or get some fresh air by walking or running as long as one is alone, with only one friend or with your family. We are blessed to have a castle and a park and pond which were only a kilometer from our house. And on a gorgeous Monday, we trekked to Grundel Park and Pond to tank up some vitamin D and enjoy the great outdoors.

As a bonus, we took a photo of Grundel Park Bridge, which connects the pond with an island. The structure is about a century old but its original predecessor was built in honor of Glauchau’s engineer, Heinrich Carl Hedrich, who not only built some bridges in the area, but became the first person who built the city water system for homes and businesses. The construction of the Flutgraben Canal encircling Glauchau also was to his name. The island has a monument on the opposite end of the bridge and a statue, both built in his honor. More on him will come later.

And as for the pic itself, on a sunny day with trees set to blossom, there’s nothing really much to say except this:

Wow! ❤ 🙂

 

TYB: First (Historic) Bridge You Photographed

In connection with the BHC’s 10th anniversary, we’re conducting a campaign to promote historic bridges in terms of preservation, photography, stories and tourism.  After the first campaign on the strangest encounter while bridgehunting, our next campaign deals with:

THE FIRST HISTORIC BRIDGE YOU PHOTOGRAPHED.

The question to the readers is: what was the first bridge you photographed and what was your first impression of the structure? The historic bridge must be older than 70 years and you must also describe it.

Example:

The first bridge I photographed was this one: The Petersburg Road Bridge in Jackson, Minnesota. The through truss span was built in 1907 and was torn down in 1995 after having been abandoned for 11 years. Although my first photo of the bridge came in 1990 with a camera taking 110-film, this photo was taken with a Kodak camera taking 35mm film in 1992, the time the bridge was fenced off because it was unsafe.  The bridge used to be a gathering point for not only my family but for a neighborhood that was located along the West Fork Des Moines River before flooding in 1965 and 1969 forced them to move away.  Many people jumped off the bridge and took a swim in the river. The bridge was a meeting point for fishing and grill fests; even so in 1987 when two boys wandered off and got lost for many hours before they were found.  My grandma and many neighbors living nearby fought to keep the bridge open for pedestrians in 1985, which was successful. Yet the Great Flood of 1993 sealed its fate as a portion of the bridge collapsed.  On February 1st, 1995, a day after I turned 18, the structure was removed. The area has been converted into a recreational area.

 

Now it’s your turn. What was your first bridge you photographed? Tell us your story and share your photo, either here or on the Chronicles’ facebook page here.

We are still accepting strange encounters while bridgehunting, the story behind it you will find here.

Happy Bridgehunting, folks! 🙂

 

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via Pandemic Postponement: Putting Travel Life On Hold — THE FLENSBURG FILES

 

The Corona Virus has put many forms of life on hold. This includes travel and hobbies- bridgehunting included. Many have been forced to put projects on hold and this article has some tips to make cancellations and postponements smooth. In times like these, we need some guidance on how to get back home to our families and close friends safely. Courtesy of The Flensburg Files and Gallivance.