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Wakely Road Bridge: 1892 2001-04-05 Saratoga: Wood: stone arch bridge Grand Avenue Bridge 1894 removed 1987-02-18 Neillsville: Clark: Overhead Pratt Truss Leedle Mill Truss Bridge: ca. 1916: 1980-09-17 removed 2013-1-9 Evansville
Cedarburg Covered Bridge [2] Ozaukee: Cedarburg: 1876 120 feet (37 m) Cedar Creek: County of Ozaukee: Town: Once known as Red Bridge; center pier added in 1927 [1] Red Mill Covered Bridge [3] Waupaca: Dayton
WI-34: Palm Tree Road Bridge Extant Stone arch: 1903 1987 Palm Tree Road Sheboygan River: St. Cloud: Fond du Lac: WI-35: Mill Bridge Extant Stone arch: 1907 1987 Mill Street Little Wolf River: Scandinavia: Waupaca
Paper Mill Road has to wind down the gorge in order to cross over the creek. At the crossing, circa 1960, lay one of Cobb County's two remaining covered bridges; the other crossed Nickajack Creek near Smyrna. The Sope Creek Bridge was a state-declared historic structure and only had a weight capacity of 2000 pounds (one U.S. ton). In 1963, a ...
The settlement of Cambridge dates back to October 15, 1847, when the farmer Joseph Keyes filed plans with the Register of Deeds of Dane County. The first structure in the area was a dam on the northern part of Koshkonong Creek. By the late 1880s, Cambridge had grown into a community of about 700 people with shops, hotels, and a post office.
The Paper Mill Bridge was built in 1889 by Charles F. Sears, whose family was prominent in the local bridge-building business. The bridge, which is the longest covered bridge in Bennington County, is similar in design to the nearby Silk Covered Bridge, whose design is sometimes attributed to Sears' father Benjamin. [3] [4] [5] It was rebuilt in ...
Timber was cut into logs at the pulpwood mill, and then stockpiled on the premises before being sent along the river to paper mills. Operating with a 35-bhp motor at a 45-degree angle, [4] the 175-foot (53 m) double-trussed stacker replaced what had been a labor-intensive method of handling the timber product. It moved the cut logs into large ...
In 1911, Consolidated took over the nearby Biron mill from the Grand Rapids Pulp and Paper Co., which became the Biron Division. [4] [5] In 1916, it absorbed the Interlake Pulp & Paper Company of Appleton, which became the Interlake Division. [5] In 1918, the company built a hydroelectric dam at Stevens Point, adding paper machines in 1919. [5]