Fremont Mill Bridge

The Fremont Mill Bridge near Anamosa, Iowa was built in 1873. Its superstructure was designed and built by Massillon Iron Bridge Company and its foundations were built by James Milne. It is a wrought iron bowstring through arch bridge.

Fremont Mill Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Nearest city	Anamosa, Iowa
Coordinates	42°06′38″N 91°08′26″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1873
Built by	Massillon Iron Bridge Company (superstructure); James Milne (substructure)
Architectural style	bowstring through arch
MPS	Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
NRHP reference No.	98000537[1]
Added to NRHP	May 15, 1998

It originally spanned the Maquoketa River in Monticello City and was built to replace a bridge that had been destroyed by ice flow.

The bridge has been moved twice, first in 1930 to span Buffalo Creek, and again in 1986. As of 1994, it served to bring a pedestrian path over a small pond in Jones County's Central Park, in Jackson Township, Iowa, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Anamosa.^[2]

The Fremont Mill Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.^[1]

See also

• List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Iowa

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. Hybben, Robert; Roise, Charlene; Fraser, Clayton (August 31, 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Fremont Mill Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-06-29. with photo from 1990

External links

• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. IA-58, "Fremont Mill Bridge, Central Park (moved from Monticello, Jones County), Anamosa, Jones County, IA", 10 photos, 1 color transparency, 3 measured drawings, 12 data pages, 1 photo caption page