NRHP Reference # 98000539 Architectural style Tied-arch bridge Nearest city Anamosa | Built by King Bridge Company Added to NRHP 15 May 1998 | |
MPS Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS Similar Wapsipinicon State Park, St Joseph's Roman C, Anamosa Public Library, Ely's Stone Bridge, Anamosa State Penitentiary | ||
Moving hale bridge
Hale Bridge is a historic structure located south of Anamosa, Iowa, United States. It spans the Wapsipinicon River for 296 feet (90 m). In April 1877 the Jones County Board of Supervisors contracted with the King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Co. of Cleveland to provide iron bridges to the county for the next year. Pile driving for this bridge's substructure got underway soon after, and the piers were completed by early fall. King provided a 100-foot (30 m) Bowstring through arch-truss and a shorter pony arch in the winter of 1878. The bridge's configuration was changed the following spring and the county ordered another pony truss to replace the original timber approach. The bridge was completed in June 1879, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The Hale Bridge remained in its original location near the unincorporated community of Hale until 2006 when it was moved upriver to Wapsipinicon State Park south of Anamosa.