Prescott Drawbridge

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bridge_name= Prescott Drawbridge


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official_name= Prescott Highway Bridge
also_known_as= Prescott Drawbridge
carries= U.S. Route 10
crosses= St. Croix River (Wisconsin-Minnesota)
locale= Minnesota-Wisconsin Border
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id= 82010
design= steel girder with double-leaf drawbridge
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length=672 feet (205 meters)
width= 54 feet (16 meters), 4 lanes
height= 20 feet (6 meters)
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traffic= 13000/day
open= 1990
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The Prescott Drawbridge, also called the Point Douglas Drawbridge is a steel girder bridge with a double-leaf drawbridge section. The roadbed of the drawbridge span is a steel grate. The bridge crosses the St. Croix River and connects Prescott, Wisconsin with Point Douglas, Minnesota. This is the only drawbridge in the Minneapolis-St.Paul area. It was completed in 1990 and replaced a rare regional example of a Waddell and Harrington vertical lift bridge completed in 1922 which operated as a toll bridge from 1923-1946.

External links

Current Bridge

* [http://www.johnweeks.com/bridges/pages/sc01.html Point Douglas Draw Bridge at MSP Bridges]

Previous Bridge

* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.wi0233 Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)] - Survey number HAER WI-61
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