Germany Bridge was a historic

Whipple Truss A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements, usually forming triangular units. The connected elements, typically straight, may be stressed from tension, compression, or ...

bridge located near Rochester,

Fulton County, Indiana Fulton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. , the population was 20,480. The county seat is Rochester. History The first non-Native Americans to ever set foot in what is now Fulton County, Indiana, were French traders ...

. It was built in 1879 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Co., and spanned the

Tippecanoe River The Tippecanoe River ( ) is a gentle, U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed May 19, 2011 river in the Central Corn Belt Plains ecoregion in northern Indiana. It flows from Cro ...

. It was a single span iron bridge on cut stone abutments. ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs. It collapsed on October 23, 1979, and was replaced with new span in 1980 It was listed on the

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in 1978 and delisted in 1980.

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