Leavenworth Bridge, Spanning Missouri River, Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, KS

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See also HAER NE-2 for historical report and additional documentation.

Significance: The bridge that George Morison designed for Leavenworth represented a synthesis of his previous thirteen bridges over the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. It combined the swing span configuration of his Mississippi River structures with the caisson-footed piers of his Missouri River bridges.

Survey number: HAER KS-6

Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

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1969 - 1980

Historic American Engineering Record, creator

Leavenworth Terminal, Railway & Bridge Company

Snyder, E W

Morison, George

Nelles, George T

Union Bridge Company

Leavenworth (Kan.) , 39.31111, -94.92246

Library of Congress

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