Cedar Creek Bridge
a.k.a. 32AD50
Across Cedar Cr., unnamed co. rd., approximately 6 mi. N and 11 mi. E of Haynes, Haynes, NDIn accordance with the guidelines established in the Multiple Property Documentation form for "Historic Roadway Bridges in North Dakota," the Cedar Creek Bridge is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places with local significance under Criteria "A" and "c." The bridge is significant under Criterion A for its association with an important pattern of bridge construction in a number of counties in the state, in which one or two bridge companies received most of the contracts over a successive period of years, even with, or under the pretense of, competitive bidding. This pattern emerged in the late nineteenth century and, in some counties, continued into the 1930s. This bridge serves as a representative example of the pattern; it is one of the two oldest documented bridges in Adams County constructed by a long-term county bridge builder, the Twin City Bridge Company. The bridge is significant under Criterion C because it is one of the two oldest documented bridges in the county, being constructed soon after the county was formed in 1907. It is, in addition, a well-preserved example of the Pratt through truss design, the most common structural form for early, large-span metal bridges in the state.
County records indicate that this riveted Pratt through-truss bridge (with stringer approach span) was one of "two steel bridges, with steel and concrete piers [to be constructed] across the Cedar River" in 1908 by the Twin City Bridge Co. of Minneapolis, Minnesota. This builder was virtually the sole bridge company employed by the county from about 1907 to the mid-1920s. Surprisingly, however, Twin city Bridge is not known to have constructed bridges elsewhere in North Dakota. A 1991 statewide survey of North Dakota's historic bridges identified five surviving bridges constructed by Twin City Bridge, all of which are in Adams County.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
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