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The Otranto Bridge was located northwest of
St. Ansgar, Iowa St. Ansgar is a city in Mitchell County, Iowa, Mitchell County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,160 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. History St. Ansgar is named for the St. Ansgar, patron saint of Scandinavia, a French peop ...
, United States. It carried traffic on 480th Avenue over the Cedar River for . with The supervisors from Mitchell County contracted with the
Chicago Bridge and Iron Company CB&I is a large engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company with its administrative headquarters in The Woodlands, Texas. CB&I specializes in projects for oil and gas companies. CB&I employs more than 32,000 people worldwide. In Ma ...
(CBI) to build two bridges in the county.
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engineer Horace E. Horton from CBI designed this
Camelback through truss A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements, usually forming triangular units. The connected elements (typically straight) may be stressed from tension, compression, or s ...
bridge. It replaced and older span at the same location, and it was completed in 1899 for $3,257. The Otranto Bridge was one of the few Camelback through truss bridges built in Iowa. It was replaced by a modern bridge and was privately owned before being dismantled. The bridge 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. It was removed in 2020.


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