Shanaska Creek Bridge

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Shanaska Creek Bridge
Bridge4846ShanaskaCreekMN.jpg
The bridge in 2017
Shanaska Creek Bridge is located in Minnesota
Shanaska Creek Bridge
Nearest cityKasota, Minnesota
Coordinates44°15′59″N 93°53′54″W / 44.26639°N 93.89833°W / 44.26639; -93.89833 (Shanaska Creek Bridge)Coordinates: 44°15′59″N 93°53′54″W / 44.26639°N 93.89833°W / 44.26639; -93.89833 (Shanaska Creek Bridge)
Built1875
NRHP reference No.81000681[1]
Designated February 17, 1981

The Shanaska Creek Bridge, also called Washington Park Bridge and officially Bridge 4846, is an iron 8 panel pin-connected Pratt through truss bridge[2] which was erected in 1875 over the Blue Earth River in the U.S. State of Minnesota and moved twice since.[3] It was built near Vernon Center, Minnesota by Soulerin, James, and Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[4]

Silhouette of ironwork detail

In 1929, it was placed over Minnesota State Highway 22 to carry Le Sueur County Road 102.[3] It was the oldest bridge of its type left in the state[5] when it was listed at that location on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.[6]

It was moved again in 1984[3] to its present location where it carries a hiking and bicycle path over Shanaska Creek in Lake Washington Park near Kasota, Minnesota.[7]

In 2011, Randy Walker covered the bridge in colorful fabric[8] to create a temporary art installation called Passage.[9]

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Holth, Nathan (June 2, 2013). "Washington Park Bridge (CR-102 MN-22 Bridge)". HistoricBridges.org. Retrieved 2017-02-18.
  3. ^ a b c Gardner, Denis (2008). Wood, Concrete, Stone, and Steel: Minnesota's Historic Bridges. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 185. ISBN 9780816646661.
  4. ^ Hess, Jeffrey A. (1988). Final Report of the Minnesota Historic Bridge Survey. St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society. State Historic Preservation Office. p. 209. The 1875 bridge erected by Soulerin, James, and Company over the Blue Earth River at Vernon Center now stands in a park in LeSueur County.
  5. ^ Bloomberg, Britta (August 1980). "MINNESOTA HISTORIC PROPERTIES INVENTORY FORM: Bridge #4846" (PDF). Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-02-13.
  6. ^ Nord, Mary Ann (2003). National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press. p. 110. ISBN 0873517458.
  7. ^ "Bridge 4846". Historic Bridges. Minnesota Department of Transportation. 2017. Retrieved 2017-02-13. Bridge 4846 is a Pratt through truss located in Lake Washington Park in Kasota Township in Le Sueur County.
  8. ^ Ojanpa, Brian (November 6, 2011). "Artist wraps park bridge with colored fibers". Free Press. Mankato, Minnesota. Retrieved 2017-02-13. The 1875 Shanaska Creek bridge in Lake Washington County Park has been cocooned in a cacophony of color — about 48,000 ribbon feet of it.
  9. ^ "Passage". Museum without Walls. cultureNOW. Retrieved 2017-02-13. In this project, an historic 1875 wrought iron bridge was used as a framework for an artistic intervention.
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