Rock Island County IL Archives News.....Mississippi River Bridge August 10, 1854
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Maquoketa Sentinel August 10, 1854
Maquoketa Sentinel, August 10, 1854.

MISSISSIPPI BRIDGE-
The work on the Railroad bridge across the Mississippi at this point is steadily
progressing. This morning we noticed that the stone work for the bridge from
this city to the island is all completed, but about five or six feet on the
abutment adjoining the city. There is a strong force at work on that, and the
contractor, John Warner, Esq. thinks it will be completed in about two weeks,
ready for the superstructure.

The abutment on the Iowa shore for the bridge across the main channel of the
river will contain about 800 rods of masonry, 500 of which is already laid and
the work would have been commenced upon the piers before this time, but for the
rise in the rivers.

The grading of the island is going ahead rapidly, and will probably be completed
in a very few weeks.-Rock Island Republican, 29th.

(Note: In 1856 the steamboat Effie Afton struck this bridge and sunk. A lawsuit
followed for obstructing navigation against the company that built the bridge.
Abraham Lincoln defended the bridge company in the lawsuit.)


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