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Ten Mile Creek Bridge (Iowa)
The Ten Mile Creek Bridge was a historic structure located northwest of Decorah, Iowa, United States. It spanned Ten Mile Creek for . The R.D. Wheaton Bridge Company of Chicago supplied several king post truss bridges to Winneshiek County in the mid-1890s, and this is probably one of them. There are no county records specific to this bridge. with It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ... in 1998 and it was delisted in 2017. References Bridges completed in 1895 Bridges in Winneshiek County, Iowa National Register of Historic Places in Winneshiek County, Iowa Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa Truss bridges in Iowa Former National Register of Historic Places in Iowa { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decorah, Iowa
Decorah is a city in and the county seat of Winneshiek County, Iowa, United States. The population was 7,587 at the time of the 2020 census. Decorah is located at the intersection of State Highway 9 and U.S. Route 52, and is the largest community in Winneshiek County. History Decorah was the site of a Ho-Chunk village beginning ''circa'' 1840. Several Ho-Chunks had settled along the Upper Iowa River that year when the U.S. Army forced them to remove from Wisconsin. In 1848, the United States removed the Ho-Chunks again to a new reservation in Minnesota, opening their Iowa villages to white settlers. The first European-Americans to settle were the Day family from Tazewell County, Virginia. According to local Congregationalist minister Rev. Ephraim Adams, the Days arrived in June 1849 with the Ho-Chunks' "tents still standing—with the graves of the dead scattered about where now run our streets and stand our dwellings." Judge Eliphalet Price suggested that the Days name t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
