NRHP: Brewer Bridge
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Brewer Bridge
NRHP Reference #: 92000754
NRHP Listing Date: 19920629
Location
14.7 mi E of Valentine, Cherry County, Nebraska
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Summary
In November 1898 the Cherry County Commissioners received a complaint about the deteriorated condition of the Berry Bridge over the Niobrara River, located about fifteen miles east of Valentine. They met in special session on the bridge, condemned it as unsafe, and in January advertised for bids for a new 150-foot steel truss on cylinder piers. Submitting no fewer than six different plans, the Wrought Iron Bridge Company received the contract. Work began on the bridge in the spring of 1899 and was completed by October of that year. The truss functioned in place for over three decades before the county replaced it with a heavier span (the Berry State Aid Bridge) in 1921. The 1899 span was then moved to the site of the old Brewer Bridge, a casualty of flooding five years earlier. Here it has carried infrequent traffic as the oldest of Cherry County's trusses.
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