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Mill Race Bridge is a historic structure located northwest of
Eldorado, Iowa Eldorado is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, Iowa Iowa ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the upper Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri Ri ...
, United States. It spans the Turkey River for . with Its name is derived from its location near a riverside mill. Horace E. Horton, a civil engineer from
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, had designed wagon bridges for Fayette County in the 1880s. When he joined the
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late in the decade, he took the county with him as a client. Chicago Bridge & Iron was responsible for providing the county's bridges in the 1890s. This bridge was completed about 1892, but its concrete
abutment An abutment is the substructure at the ends of a bridge span or dam supporting its superstructure. Single-span bridges have abutments at each end that provide vertical and lateral support for the span, as well as acting as retaining walls ...
s are not original. While it remains in place, but it has been replaced by a newer span. The Mill Race Bridge was listed on the
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in 1998.


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List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Iowa __NOTOC__ This is a list of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in the United States, US state of Iowa. Bridges Notes References

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* Bridges completed in 1892 Bridges in Fayette County, Iowa Historic American Engineering Record in Iowa National Register of Historic Places in Fayette County, Iowa Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa Truss bridges in Iowa Warren truss bridges in the United States {{Iowa-bridge-struct-stub