NRHP: Willow Creek Bridge
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Willow Creek Bridge
NRHP Reference #: 92000706
NRHP Listing Date: 19920629
Location
6.5 mi S of Foster, Pierce County, Nebraska
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Summary
Configured as a rigid-connected lattice pony truss with latticed guardrails, this small-scale truss was built in 1913 by the Canton Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio. With its lattice configuration, this diminutive structure represents a throwback of sorts to the Town lattice truss used extensively for nineteenth century covered timber bridges. The multiple diagonals of a lattice truss function both in tension and compression at various times while a vehicle crosses over it, making the truss structurally indeterminate. For this reason lattice trusses were seldom used in all-metal configurations for other than short-span applications. All-steel lattice trusses were uncommon even for their period. No doubt several were built on Nebraska's secondary roads in the early 1900s. Through attrition, however, only two are known to remain today: this bridge, near the town of Foster, and another Pierce County structure, also over Willow Creek.
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