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Deer Creek Bridge, Spanning Deer Creek at Township Road 406, Geff, Wayne County, IL

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Deer Creek Bridge, Spanning Deer Creek at Township Road 406, Geff, Wayne County, IL

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Significance: The Deer Creek bridge, a half-hip pony truss with verticals, 45'-0" long and built in 1910, is one of the earliest known Warren truss bridges in Illinois. It is the only truss bridge in the state known to have field connections made with carriage bolts.
Survey number: HAER IL-126
Building/structure dates: 1910 Initial Construction

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1969 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Chesron, Lesley W
Wegman-French, Lysa, transmitter
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