ANOTHER KING BRIDGE IN IOWA

Back in April of 2003, we received an email with a picture attached from John Fleming of a King built Pratt truss over the Iowa River near LeGrand in Marshall County. It turns out that he visited the bridge at the same time that the consultants doing the Iowa historic bridge survey were there doing their research and had also had collected an 1885 King Bridge plate just upstream from the bridge . With apologies to John for our tardy posting of his pictures, we would like to note that this bridge, known as the Quarry Bridge , is now documented in the Iowas Historic Bridge Inventory  prepared for IDOT and can be found at http://www.ole.dot.state.ia.us/historicbridges/detail.asp?id=152. This is an outstanding historic bridge website and well worth a visit. John’s pictures are shown below.