Vincennes_Bridge_Company

Vincennes Bridge Company

Vincennes Bridge Company

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The Vincennes Bridge Company, based in Vincennes, Indiana, was a designer and builder of bridges that was "one of Indiana's 'most successful bridge-building firms'".[1]:12

Cache River Bridge, 1988

It was founded by three schoolteachers in 1898. The firm produced more than 1200 bridges per year by 1920.[1]:12,13 The firm reincorporated as Vincennes Steel Company in 1932.[2]:5 The Vincennes Steel Company ceased to exist by 2006, when its assets were folded into Wabash Steel, Inc.[3]

A number of its works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.[4][5]

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References

  1. "Historic Bridges of Arkansas".
  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-13. Retrieved 2011-12-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Home". wabashsteel.biz.

Interstate 95 Gold Star Memorial Bridge crossing the Thames River - New London, Connecticut


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