Trunk Line Bridge No. 1

The Trunk Line Bridge No.. Known one, as Peshekee River Bridge, is the first by the Michigan State Highway Department built bridge on the highway US-41/M-28. It was built in 1914 and registered on 17 December 1999 in the National Register of Historic Places. It was registered together with a number of other bridges, designed the Ministry.

Description

The Trunk Line Bridge No.. is a mehrspannige concrete bridge in the west of Marquette County, about eight kilometers west of Michigamme. The bridge led across the U.S. 41/M-28 Pesheskee River near the river mouth in the Lake Michigamme. It is located between a railway bridge in the Soo Line and the northern building, which serves the modern motor vehicle traffic.

The bridge is 72 m long and is composed of six each 12 m long box beams. It is a concrete floor, which is lined with timber heads in full. Supported the carriers of massive concrete pillars with broad-nosed icebreakers. In total, more than 460 cubic meters of concrete were used.

History

The bridge can not be crossed today by motor vehicle driver. It was built in 1914 and was a result of the State Trunk Line Act of 1913. This law put a federal highway system in Michigan, determining its length nearly 4800 km, respectively. The law also said that the Michigan State Highway Department bridges plan, build and would entertain whose length exceeded 3 m, if the local government subsequent highways would ( about 4.8 miles) to improve it in a length of at least three miles. The Marquette County built in 1913, such a main road between Marquette and Michigamme near the Countygrenze to bring the state to build a bridge at this point. The designer of the building was C. V. Dewart and the construction was for the person sitting in Marquette construction company Powell and Mitchell. In the 1920s, the Peshekee River Bridge was incorporated into the course of U.S. Highway 41.

Because of the importance of its architecture and engineering performance, the bridge in 1999 as a "Trunk Line Bridge No. was. 1 "is entered in the National Register of Historic Places. The MDOT designated the bridge as once one of the most important vehicle bridges in Michigan. The building was in 1914 the first bridge of the Michigan State Highway Department. He was replaced by a new building in 1995 a little further north suffered and the road over the old building was set below.