Shanaska Creek Bridge Explained

Shanaska Creek Bridge
Coordinates:44.2664°N -93.8983°W
Nearest City:Kasota, Minnesota
Built:1875
Refnum:81000681
Designated Nrhp Type: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[1] which was erected in 1875 over the Blue Earth River in the U.S. State of Minnesota and moved twice since.[2] It was built near Vernon Center, Minnesota by Soulerin, James, and Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[3]

In 1929, it was placed over Minnesota State Highway 22 to carry Le Sueur County Road 102.[2] It was the oldest bridge of its type left in the state[4] when it was listed at that location on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.[5]

It was moved again in 1984[2] to its present location where it carries a hiking and bicycle path over Shanaska Creek in Lake Washington Park near Kasota, Minnesota.[6]

In 2011, Randy Walker covered the bridge in colorful fabric[7] to create a temporary art installation called Passage.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Washington Park Bridge (CR-102 MN-22 Bridge) . Holth . Nathan . June 2, 2013 . HistoricBridges.org . 2017-02-18.
  2. Book: Gardner, Denis . 2008 . Wood, Concrete, Stone, and Steel: Minnesota's Historic Bridges . . University of Minnesota Press . 185 . 9780816646661.
  3. Book: Hess, Jeffrey A. . 1988 . Final Report of the Minnesota Historic Bridge Survey . . Minnesota Historical Society. State Historic Preservation Office. . 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..
  4. Web site: MINNESOTA HISTORIC PROPERTIES INVENTORY FORM: Bridge #4846 . Bloomberg . Britta . August 1980 . . 2017-02-13 . PDF.
  5. Book: Nord, Mary Ann . 2003 . National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota . registration . St. Paul . Minnesota Historical Society Press . 110 . 0873517458.
  6. Web site: Bridge 4846 . . 2017 . Historic Bridges . Minnesota Department of Transportation . 2017-02-13 . Bridge 4846 is a Pratt through truss located in Lake Washington Park in Kasota Township in Le Sueur County..
  7. News: Ojanpa . Brian . November 6, 2011 . Artist wraps park bridge with colored fibers . Free Press . . 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..
  8. Web site: Passage . . Museum without Walls . cultureNOW . 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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