NRHP: Mission Creek Bridge
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Mission Creek Bridge
NRHP Reference #: 92000762
NRHP Listing Date: 19920629
Location
7 mi SE of Barneston, Gage County, Nebraska
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Summary
Constructed in 1898 near Barneston, the Mission Creek Bridge is technologically significant as one of the three oldest of thirty-two small, steel, rigid-connected Warren pony trusses of a type found only in Gage County. They are characterized by a relatively lightweight superstructure and a rare suspended U-bolt connection of the floor beams to the superstructure.
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