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North Platte River Bowstring Truss Bridge, Spanning North Platte River, Fort Laramie, Goshen County, WY

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North Platte River Bowstring Truss Bridge, Spanning North Platte River, Fort Laramie, Goshen County, WY

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North Platte River Bowstring Truss Bridge, Spanning North Platte River, Fort Laramie, Goshen County, WY

North Platte River Bowstring Truss Bridge, Spanning North Platte River, Fort Laramie, Goshen County, WY

North Platte River Bowstring Truss Bridge, Spanning North Platte River, Fort Laramie, Goshen County, WY

North Platte River Bowstring Truss Bridge, Spanning North Platte River, Fort Laramie, Goshen County, WY

North Platte River Bowstring Truss Bridge, Spanning North Platte River, Fort Laramie, Goshen County, WY

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Summary

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr

Significance: The North Platte River Bowstring Truss Bridge is the first of its kind to be built in the then territory of Wyoming. It is also believed to be the first military bridge west of the Mississippi.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N161

Survey number: HAER WY-1

Building/structure dates: 1875 Initial Construction

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prefabricated buildings transportation iron truss bridges vehicular bridges fort laramie wyo platte north platte river truss bridge truss bridge laramie fort laramie goshen goshen county wyoming w e barrett jack boucher dan clement todd croteau department of the army historic american engineering record king bridge and manufacturing company john dishon mcdermott chris payne daniel rucker william s stanton w r steele ultra high resolution high resolution manufacturing plants library of congress
date_range

Date

1969 - 1980
person

Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
King Bridge & Manufacturing Company
Stanton, William S
Department of the Army
Steele, W R
Rucker, Daniel
Clement, Dan, transmitter
Croteau, Todd, project manager
McDermott, John Dishon, historian
Boucher, Jack, photographer
Barrett, W E, photographer
Payne, Chris, delineator
place

Location

Fort Laramie (Wyo.) ,  42.21274, -104.51718
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Source

Library of Congress
link

Link

http://www.loc.gov/
copyright

Copyright info

No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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