NRHP: Colclesser Bridge

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Colclesser Bridge

Colclesser Bridge

NRHP Reference #: 92000729

NRHP Listing Date: 19920629

Location

11 mi S of Rushville, Sheridan County, Nebraska

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Summary

When a massive ice jam carried away the existing bridge over the Loup River south of Columbus in 1886, the Platte County Supervisors immediately began considering a replacement. The following year the county awarded a contract for a bridge consisting of four, 248-foot through trusses. The bridge carried heavy traffic - first as a county road, then the Lincoln Highway and finally on U.S. Highway 30 - until its replacement with another truss, completed in 1933. That August heavy flooding washed out virtually all of the bridges over the Niobrara River in Sheridan County. The Sheridan County Commissioners purchased two of the spans of the Columbus Bridge and erected them to replace damaged structures. Four of the panels were removed from one of the trusses, shortening its span length to 166 feet, and it was erected at the Colclesser crossing, eleven miles south of Rushville.

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