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Chain Lakes Bridge
The Chain Lakes Bridge is a historic structure located southeast of Palo, Iowa, United States. It carries a pedestrian trail for over the Cedar River. with The Linn County Board of Supervisors began planning for this span in the early 1880s. They appropriated $20,000 for this two-span Pratt through truss The Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio, which built bridges in the county since 1879, completed this structure in 1884. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ... in 1998. While it was built to carry vehicular traffic, it is now in a nature preserve maintained by the Linn County Conservation Board. See also * * * * * List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa * Na ...
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Cedar River (Iowa River)
The Cedar River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 13, 2011 river in Minnesota and Iowa. It is a tributary of the Iowa River, which flows to the Mississippi River. The Cedar River takes its name from the red cedar (''Juniperus virginiana'') trees growing there, and was originally called the Red Cedar River by the Meskwaki. The first Mississippi steamboat reached Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1844, and during the next decade, the Red Cedar (as it was still called) was an important commercial waterway. The surrounding region is known officially as the Cedar River Valley, though it is more commonly referred to simply as the Cedar Valley. The stream is young geologically, and only in places where the glacial material has been removed is the underlying bedrock exposed. Geography The headwaters of the Cedar River are located in Dodge County, Minnesota, consisting of a west fork and middle fork approximat ...
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Bridges Completed In 1884
A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually something that is otherwise difficult or impossible to cross. There are many different designs of bridges, each serving a particular purpose and applicable to different situations. Designs of bridges vary depending on factors such as the function of the bridge, the nature of the terrain where the bridge is constructed and anchored, the material used to make it, and the funds available to build it. The earliest bridges were likely made with fallen trees and stepping stones. The Neolithic people built boardwalk bridges across marshland. The Arkadiko Bridge, dating from the 13th century BC, in the Peloponnese is one of the oldest arch bridges in existence and use. Etymology The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' traces the origin of the word ''bri ...
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Pratt Truss Bridges In The United States
Pratt is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: A–F * Abner Pratt (1801–1863), American diplomat, jurist, politician, and lawyer *Al Pratt (baseball) (1847–1937), American baseball player * Andy Pratt (baseball) (born 1979), American baseball player *Andy Pratt (singer-songwriter) (born 1947), American singer-songwriter and musician *Ann Pratt (born c. 1830), Jamaican author about Kingston Lunatic Asylum *Antwerp Edgar Pratt (1852–1924), British naturalist, explorer, collector of plants and animals *Awadagin Pratt (born 1966), American concert pianist *Babe Pratt (Walter Peter Pratt, 1916–1988), Canadian ice hockey player * Betty Rosenquest Pratt, (1925–2016), American tennis player *Bob Pratt (1912–2001), Australian rules footballer * Caleb S. Pratt (1832–1861), Union Army officer * Calvin Edward Pratt (1828–1896), Union Army officer *Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1713–1794), British lawyer *Charles Pratt (1830–1891), American busine ...
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Wrought Iron Bridges In The United States
Wrought is the archaic form of "worked," the more commonly used past tense and past participle of work. Wrought may also refer to: * Metalworking, the process of working with metals to create individual parts, assemblies, or large-scale structures. ** Wrought iron, iron with a very low carbon content that has been wrought (hammered) by hand. See also * * Wright (other) Wright an occupational surname originating in England, meaning worker or shaper of wood. Wright or Wrights may also refer to: Places Earth Australia * Wright, Australian Capital Territory * Division of Wright, federal electoral division in ...
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Road Bridges On The National Register Of Historic Places In Iowa
A road is a thoroughfare used primarily for movement of traffic. Roads differ from streets, whose primary use is local access. They also differ from stroads, which combine the features of streets and roads. Most modern roads are paved. The words "road" and "street" are commonly considered to be interchangeable, but the distinction is important in urban design. There are many types of roads, including parkways, avenues, controlled-access highways (freeways, motorways, and expressways), tollways, interstates, highways, and local roads. The primary features of roads include lanes, sidewalks (pavement), roadways (carriageways), medians, shoulders, verges, bike paths (cycle paths), and shared-use paths. Definitions Historically, many roads were simply recognizable routes without any formal construction or some maintenance. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) defines a road as "a line of communication (travelled way) using a stabilized base o ...
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National Register Of Historic Places In Linn County, Iowa
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Linn County, Iowa. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Linn County, Iowa, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. There are 125 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Five other sites that were once listed have been removed. Current listings Former listings See also * List of National Historic Landmarks in Iowa * National Register of Historic Places listings in Iowa * Listings in neighboring counties: Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Delaware, Iowa, Johnson, Jones References {{DEFAULTSORT:National Register Of Historic Places Listings ...
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Bridges In Linn County, Iowa
A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually something that is otherwise difficult or impossible to cross. There are many different designs of bridges, each serving a particular purpose and applicable to different situations. Designs of bridges vary depending on factors such as the function of the bridge, the nature of the terrain where the bridge is constructed and anchored, the material used to make it, and the funds available to build it. The earliest bridges were likely made with fallen trees and stepping stones. The Neolithic people built boardwalk bridges across marshland. The Arkadiko Bridge, dating from the 13th century BC, in the Peloponnese is one of the oldest arch bridges in existence and use. Etymology The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' traces the origin of the word ''bridge' ...
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Truss Bridges In Iowa
A truss is an assembly of ''members'' such as beams, connected by ''nodes'', that creates a rigid structure. In engineering, a truss is a structure that "consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so that the assemblage as a whole behaves as a single object". A ''two-force member'' is a structural component where force is applied to only two points. Although this rigorous definition allows the members to have any shape connected in any stable configuration, architectural trusses typically comprise five or more triangular units constructed with straight members whose ends are connected at joints referred to as '' nodes''. In this typical context, external forces and reactions to those forces are considered to act only at the nodes and result in forces in the members that are either tensile or compressive. For straight members, moments (torques) are explicitly excluded because, and only because, all the joints in a truss are treated as revolutes, as ...
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National Register Of Historic Places Listings In Linn County, Iowa
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Linn County, Iowa. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Linn County, Iowa, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. There are 125 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Five other sites that were once listed have been removed. Current listings Former listings See also * List of National Historic Landmarks in Iowa * National Register of Historic Places listings in Iowa * Listings in neighboring counties: Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Delaware, Iowa, Johnson, Jones References {{DEFAULTSORT:National Register Of Historic Places Listings ...
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Palo, Iowa
Palo is a city in Linn County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,407 at the time of the 2020 census. It is part of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area. Palo is located near Pleasant Creek State Recreation Park. History In 1849 a regional post office was named by Marion resident Dr. Bardwell, shortly after the Battle of Palo Alto in the Mexican-American War. Dr. Bardwell, used the short name Palo. The town was surveyed in 1854 and the first building in Palo was built in the same year and the town took its name from the local post office. Floods of 2008 Palo suffered severe damage during the 2008 flood. Approximately 980 residents, the entirety of the town, were ordered to abandon their homes and businesses. The mandatory evacuation was ordered by the Linn County Emergency Management department, due to flooding from the Cedar River. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2020 cen ...
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List Of Bridges On The National Register Of Historic Places In Iowa
This is a list of bridges and tunnels on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. state of Iowa. References

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National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Historic districts in the United States, districts, and objects deemed worthy of Historic preservation, preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". The enactment of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing property, contributing resources within historic district (United States), historic districts. For the most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the United States Department of the Interior. Its goals are to ...
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