St. Mary River Bridge & Siphon, Spanning St. Mary River, Babb, Glacier County, MT
Summary
Significance: The Reclamation Act of 1902 authorized the U.S. Reclamation Service of the Department of the Interior to undertake numerous irrigation projects to make arid land farmable. One of those projects in Montana was the Milk River Project intended to irrigate an estimated 250,000 acres. Most of the lands to be irrigated were along the Milk River from the point at which it re-enters the U.S. from Canada (NW of Havre) at the mouth of the Milk below Glasgow...
Survey number: HAER MT-22
Building/structure dates: 1915 Initial Construction
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Tags
steel truss bridges
aqueducts
agriculture
bridge construction
civil engineering
vehicular bridges
babb
mary
bridge
mary river bridge
mary river
glacier
glacier county
montana
historic american engineering record
liz jandoli
jet lowe
minneapolis bridge company
kevin murphy
fredric quivik
photo
ultra high resolution
high resolution
historic american landscapes survey
historic american buildings survey
library of congress
public domain movie stills
silent films
Date
1915 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Minneapolis Bridge Company
Murphy, Kevin, transmitter
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Quivik, Fredric, historian
Jandoli, Liz, transmitter
Location
Babb
,
48.86026, -113.43676
Source
Library of Congress
Link
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