The Eagle Point Bridge was a very narrow two-lane

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bridge that connected urban

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, and rural

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. It was part of the

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route, and was a toll bridge. After the new

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was built in 1983, the Eagle Point Bridge was torn down. At the end, the toll was ten cents, both ways, collected on the Iowa side. The bridge was located about south of

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, at the northern edge of Rhomberg Avenue in Dubuque, and connected to Eagle Point Road on the opposite side of the river. It was about north of the present bridge. In 1968, the highway designation was removed from the bridge and a four-ton load limit was put in place. The bridge was still structurally sound after the new bridge was built, leading some to ask the bridge be kept open as a pedestrian or special use bridge, but the state of Iowa still tore the bridge down. Several years after the demolition of the bridge, a restaurant known as the Tollbridge Inn was constructed at what was the Iowa end of the bridge. The restaurant operated for a number of years, until it was torn down to make way for future development. The bridge was extensively documented in 1982 for the

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, archived at the

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. The documentation includes 81 black-and-white photos and 39 data pages detailing construction and history of the bridge.

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, bridge = Eagle Point Bridge (Demolished) , bridge signs = Former , upstream = Marquette-Joliet Bridge , upstream signs = , downstream = Dubuque-Wisconsin Bridge , downstream signs = Buildings and structures in Dubuque, Iowa Transportation in Dubuque, Iowa Bridges completed in 1902 Demolished bridges in the United States U.S. Route 61 Road bridges in Iowa Road bridges in Wisconsin U.S. Route 51 Bridges of the United States Numbered Highway System Historic American Engineering Record in Iowa Historic American Engineering Record in Wisconsin Interstate vehicle bridges in the United States Former toll bridges in Iowa Former toll bridges in Wisconsin Bridges in Dubuque County, Iowa 1902 establishments in Iowa 1902 establishments in Wisconsin 1983 disestablishments in Iowa 1983 disestablishments in Wisconsin

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