Hale Bridge

	Hale Bridge
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Hale Bridge in 2014
Nearest city	Anamosa, Iowa
Coordinates	42°05′33.8″N 91°16′28.8″W / 42.092722°N 91.274667°W
Built	1877-1879
Built by	King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Co.
Architectural style	Bowstring through arch-truss
MPS	Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
NRHP reference No.	98000539
Added to NRHP	May 15, 1998

Hale Bridge is a historic structure located south of Anamosa, Iowa, United States. It spans the Wapsipinicon River for 296 feet (90 m).^[2] It is an example of a bowstring through-arch truss bridge. Perhaps thousands of these bridges were built in Iowa in the late 1860s through the 1870s. However, by 1992, fewer than twenty survive.^[3]

In April 1877 the Jones County Board of Supervisors contracted with the King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Co. of Cleveland to provide iron bridges to the county for the next year. Pile driving for this bridge's substructure got underway soon after, and the piers were completed by early fall. King provided a 100-foot (30 m) bowstring through arch-truss and a shorter pony arch in the winter of 1878. The bridge's configuration was changed the following spring and the county ordered another pony truss to replace the original timber approach.^[2] The bridge was completed in June 1879, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.^[1] The Hale Bridge remained in its original location near the unincorporated community of Hale until 2006 when it was moved upriver to Wapsipinicon State Park south of Anamosa.^[3]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b Hybben, Robert; Roise, Charlene; Fraser, Clayton B. "Hale Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-11-01. with photos
^ ^a ^b "Hale bridge". Iowa Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on 2018-04-28. Retrieved 2022-06-10.

External links[edit]

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. IA-59, "Hale Bridge, Spanning Wapsipinicon River, Oxford Junction, Jones County, IA", 13 photos, 1 color transparency, 11 data pages, 1 photo caption page

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[Fraser-2] Hybben, Robert; Roise, Charlene; Fraser, Clayton B. "Hale Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-11-01. with photos

[idot-3] "Hale bridge". Iowa Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on 2018-04-28. Retrieved 2022-06-10.

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v t e National Register of Historic Places in Jones County, Iowa
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Monticello	Ely's Stone Bridge S.S. Farwell House Moore's Ford Bridge Odd Fellows Hall St. Luke's Methodist Church
Olin	Business Part of Olin Historic District
Scotch Grove	Corbett's/Eby's Mill Bridge Scotch Grove Historic District
Stone City	St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Stone City Historic District
Wyoming	Dr. Martin H. Caulkins House and Office
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Jones County, Iowa and List of National Historic Landmarks in Iowa

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