Eagle Point Bridge

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bridge_name= Eagle Point Bridge


caption= The former Eagle Point Bridge
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carries= 2 lanes of US 61/US 151
crosses= Mississippi River
locale= Dubuque, Iowa and Grant County, Wisconsin
maint= State of Iowa
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design= Truss bridge
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open= 1902
closed= 1983
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map_text=
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long= The Eagle Point Bridge was a very-narrow two lane automobile bridge that connected urban Dubuque, Iowa and rural Grant County, Wisconsin. It was part of the US 61/US 151 route, and was a toll bridge. After the new Dubuque-Wisconsin Bridge was built in 1983, the Eagle Point Bridge was torn down. At the end, the toll was ten cents, both ways, collected on the Iowa side.

The bridge was located near Lock and Dam No. 11, at the northern edge of Rhomberg Avenue in Dubuque. It was about one mile (2 km) north of the present bridge. The bridge was still structurally sound after the new bridge was built, leading some to ask the bridge be kept open as a pedestrian or special use bridge, but the state still tore the bridge down.Fact|date=February 2007

Several years after the demolition of the bridge, a restaurant known as the Tollbridge Inn was constructed at what was the Iowa end of the bridge. The restaurant operated for a number of years, until it was torn down to make way for future development.

The bridge was extensively documented in 1982 for the Library of Congress Historic American Engineering Record. The survey consists of 81 black and white photos and 45 data pages detailing construction and history of the bridge.

ee also

*List of crossings of the Upper Mississippi River

External links

* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ia0114 Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)] Survey number HAER IA-2

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structure = Bridges
place = Mississippi River
bridge = Eagle Point Bridge (Demolished)
bridge signs = Former
upstream = Marquette-Joliet Bridge
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downstream = Dubuque-Wisconsin Bridge
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