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Military Street Bridge, Spanning Black River at Military Street, Port Huron, St. Clair County, MI

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Military Street Bridge, Spanning Black River at Military Street, Port Huron, St. Clair County, MI

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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

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
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Port Huron42.95299, -82.43334
Google Map of 42.9529901, -82.4333365
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Library of Congress
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