Military Street Bridge, Spanning Black River at Military Street, Port Huron, St. Clair County, MI
Summary
Significance: The Military Street Bridge is the oldest surviving bascule highway bridge in Michigan and is an excellent example of the underneath counterweight trunnion design developed by Jospeh B. Strauss, an important twentieth-century American bridge engineer.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1549
Survey number: HAER MI-38
Building/structure dates: after 1990 Demolished
Building/structure dates: 1912-1913 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Location
Port Huron, 42.95299, -82.43334
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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