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The Chow Chow Bridge was an early, wooden
cable-stayed bridge A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, normally forming a fan-like pattern o ...
crossing the
Quinault River Quinault may refer to: * Quinault people, an Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast **Quinault Indian Nation, a federally recognized tribe **Quinault language, their language People * Quinault family of actors, including * Jean-Baptis ...
on the
Quinault Indian Reservation The Quinault Indian Nation ( or ; QIN), formerly known as the Quinault Tribe of the Quinault Reservation, is a federally recognized tribe of Quinault, Queets, Quileute, Hoh, Chehalis, Chinook, and Cowlitz peoples.
near Taholah, Grays Harbor County,
Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on ...
. It was built for the first time in 1952 and finally removed in 1988. Frank Milward designed the bridge for Aloha Lumber Company. The bridge collapsed three times and was rebuilt twice. Timbers were made into cedar shakes for the tribal center in Taholah after the final 1988 collapse. It was one of the first cable-stayed bridges in the U.S., and the first in Washington. In 1971, the bridge was closed by
Joe DeLaCruz Joe DeLaCruz (Joseph B. DeLaCruz, July 16, 1937 – April 16, 2000) was a Native American leader in Washington, U.S., president for 22 years of the Quinault Tribe.Ross AndersonQuinault Indian leader Joe DeLaCruz dies ''Seattle Times'', 2000-04-18. ...
and other Quinault in protest of unfair resource extraction on the reservation.Portrait of Our Land


See also

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List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Washington (state) __NOTOC__ This is a list of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in the US state of Washington (state), Washington. Bridges See also *List of tunnels documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Washington ...


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* Cable-stayed bridges Bridges completed in 1952 Transportation buildings and structures in Grays Harbor County, Washington Former National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state) Historic American Engineering Record in Washington (state) Quinault National Register of Historic Places in Grays Harbor County, Washington {{Washington-NRHP-stub