Forty years ago this month the fate of an overhead suspension bridge first erected in Iowa probably in the prior century and moved in Nuckolls County in 1935 was sealed. On a June morning construction workers toppled the tired structure into the Republican River.
It replaced a bridge destroyed by the great 1935 flood.
At the time it was moved, the Nuckolls County Commissioners expected it would be good for 100 years. It may have been had expectations of what was needed from a bridge at the location had not changed.
By 1984, the bridge was serving the most direct route from Nebraska to Lovewell...
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